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30 years ago, Marita Conlon McKenna’s groundbreaking children’s novel, Under the Hawthorn Tree, was published. The novel, set in famine-era Ireland, focuses on three children who journey across Ireland to find their two great-aunts, having lost both of their parents. The book became an enormous bestseller. (O’Brien Press)