Sam O'Connell

Sam O'Connell is an Irish boy living in the year 1846. His family (And him) think that moving o America would reduce how hungry they were. Sam, his two sisters, one brother, mother and father all sail to the US. Thinking they have a chance. But as Irish Catholics, that is laughable in Victorian-era America. Sam is a young boy who wants to make it in the United States.

The reader can watch Sam grow up, learn, love, and hurt. He finds friendship with fellow schoolmates, mail boys, and shoeshiners Charlie Hill and Patrick Smith. At school, he grows fond of classmate Alice Rose.

Sam is not a real boy. I simply want to write a realistic-fiction story about Irish-Catholic discrimination.