Big Friendly Dog: A black-and-white sheepdog is left behind when her owners are deported in the beginning, and Nory names her Maeve after the queen from Irish myth.Maggie and her husband leave to start their family in Brooklyn, New York, and Nory's goal is to one day live there as well with her loved ones. Big Applesauce: The location itself never actually appears, but is namedropped often.She's ill and unconscious for several days and has to be nursed back to health by Anna. Angst Coma: Nory essentially falls into this after the food she bought and the package from Maggie are stolen from her by a thief who attacked her when she left the post office.She danced through the cemetery and over the cliffs. But then, years later, I began to watch someone, a small child backed up against a wall.This child had such love in her, a laughing child, brave like my son. I thought there'd never be another like him. And after he was gone the whole world seemed quiet. Anna tells Nory about a little girl she watched over whom she loved because she reminded her of her son Tague, but the child was afraid of her, and Nory knows that she is the child in question.Īnna: was always singing, never still. …And That Little Girl Was Me: A variation, in that the speaker is not talking about herself, but rather the person she's talking to.Through Anna's mentorship and her own conviction, Nory finds it in herself to hold onto hope-no matter how dire the circumstances-and continue to dream that one day, her family will be together again in America. As the famine continues and Nory struggles to find food for her family, she finds an unexpected source of support in the reclusive local healer, the elderly Anna Donnelly, who teaches her how to work with herbs and looks after her and Patch. On their small farm, they work to plant potatoes while her father is away at work as a fisherman in Galway, earning money to pay rent to Lord Cunningham.īut after Maggie gets married and departs with her new husband for America, a blight hits the potatoes and plunges all the residents of the bay, including the Ryans, into starvation. In Ireland in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan leads a peaceful life in Maidin Bay with her grandfather, elder sisters Maggie and Celia, and little brother Patch. Nory Ryan's Song is a Historical Fiction Middle Grade Literature novel by Patricia Reilly Giff.
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