![]() Under the Hawthorn Tree was her debut novel. Under the Hawthorn Tree is now considered a classic, and though Dublin-born Conlon McKenna has written many more books since, it’s the one that her name will always be synonymous with. ![]() Suddenly, history was rendered not in black and white, but technicolour, and the pain of the ‘great hunger’ could be understood. Because, why would they at such a young age?īut faced with the stories of the three children in Under the Hawthorn Tree, written by bestselling author Marita Conlon McKenna, Irish children found themselves understanding the impact of such a terrible moment in the past. ![]() It gave them a connection to an event in Irish history that they might not have thought too deeply about before. The book was a dark one – it was about the Famine – but its importance to Irish children was because of this very thing. FOR IRISH ADULTS who went to school in the 1990s there is a childhood book that, when mentioned, will usually elicit expressions of deep nostalgia. ![]()
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