Out of Ireland

A Novel

by Marian O'Shea Wernicke

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Pub Date Apr 25 2023 | Archive Date Feb 07 2023

She Writes Press

General Fiction (Adult) | Historical Fiction

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In the late 1860s in Bantry, Ireland, sixteen-year-old Eileen O’Donovan is forced by her family to marry an older widower whom she barely knows and does not love. Her brother Michael, at age nineteen, becomes involved with the outlawed Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of British rule in Ireland. Their fates intertwine when they each decide to emigrate to America, where both tragedy and happiness await them.

An exciting coming-of-age story of a brother and sister in an Ireland still under the harsh rule of the British, Out of Ireland brings alive the story of our ancestors who braved the dangers of immigration in order to find a better life for themselves and their families.

In the late 1860s in Bantry, Ireland, sixteen-year-old Eileen O’Donovan is forced by her family to marry an older widower whom she barely knows and does not love. Her brother Michael, at age...

A Note From the Publisher

MARIAN O’SHEA WERNICKE is the author of the debut novel Toward That Which is Beautiful (She Writes Press, 2020). She has also published a memoir about her father called Tom O’Shea: A
Twentieth Century Man. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to an Irish Catholic family, she entered the convent of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood at age sixteen and spent eleven years as a nun before leaving the convent. Later, she met and married Michael Wernicke, an electrical engineer from Pensacola, Florida. Wernicke earned a master’s degree in English from the University of West Florida and went on to become a professor of English at Pensacola State College for twenty-five years. Upon her retirement from college teaching, Wernicke began her new life as full-time writer in 2010. She and her husband now live in Austin, Texas.

MARIAN O’SHEA WERNICKE is the author of the debut novel Toward That Which is Beautiful (She Writes Press, 2020). She has also published a memoir about her father called Tom O’Shea: A
Twentieth...

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A Note From the Publisher

MARIAN O’SHEA WERNICKE is the author of the debut novel Toward That Which is Beautiful (She Writes Press, 2020). She has also published a memoir about her father called Tom O’Shea: A
Twentieth Century Man. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to an Irish Catholic family, she entered the convent of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood at age sixteen and spent eleven years as a nun before leaving the convent. Later, she met and married Michael Wernicke, an electrical engineer from Pensacola, Florida. Wernicke earned a master’s degree in English from the University of West Florida and went on to become a professor of English at Pensacola State College for twenty-five years. Upon her retirement from college teaching, Wernicke began her new life as full-time writer in 2010. She and her husband now live in Austin, Texas.

Advance Praise

A Hasty Book List Most-Anticipated Historical Fiction Title for 2023

“As an immigrant to America in the 1800s, Eileen Sullivan faces what so many immigrant women have faced before and since: startling new freedoms alongside the cruelties of events beyond their control. Out Of Ireland is a love letter to the strength of women who came before us, full of beauty, pain, and—most of all—perseverance.”—Stacey Swann, author of Olympus, Texas, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick

“Impossible dreams are realized in ways the dreamers didn’t imagine in this fine, heart-wrenching novel. Brother and sister Michael and Eileen emigrate from Ireland to escape poverty and British oppression only to discover unexpected challenges in the New World. A believable story based on history, with themes of hope, courage, devotion, and love, it will stay with you long after the last page has been turned.”—Linda Stewart Henley, award-winning author of Estelle and Waterbury Winter

“Many Irish-Americans will see the stories of their own families in these pages. Wernicke skillfully brings life to history as her characters make the difficult passage from troubled Ireland to St. Louis’ infamous Kerry Patch.”—Patrick Murphy, author of The Irish in St. Louis: From Shanty to Lace Curtain

A Hasty Book List Most-Anticipated Historical Fiction Title for 2023

“As an immigrant to America in the 1800s, Eileen Sullivan faces what so many immigrant women have faced before and since: startling...