The News from Ireland
What is the main conflict in The News from Ireland by William Trevor?
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"The News from Ireland" hearkens back almost 150 years, to a cataclysmic event in Ireland's history: the Great Famine, which left over a million Irish dead from hunger and drove as many as two million to leave their country of birth.