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Download or read book The St Patrick s Day Shillelagh written by Janet Nolan and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family retells the story of the shillelagh that was whittled from a tree. During the Irish potato famine, Fergus and his family left for America. But first Fergus cut a branch from a blackthorn tree to take a piece of Ireland with him.

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