During the Irish Potato famine of the mid 1800's the Bannon family was living on the very edge of starvation like so many in Ireland at that dreadful time. The Bannon family was large with a newborn baby and not enough food to feed everyone. Each day was an impossible struggle for the father until Patrick was old enough to help. Patrick was the oldest child and since age twelve, he had been going out to work on farms or into town to do whatever he could to earn a penny or in some way, get a little food to bring home. At age fourteen he was supporting the family with his long hours, endurance...