Black Donnleys

The Black Donnellys
Reader Response Journal

The book I chose to read was The Black Donnellys by Thomas P. Kelly. This book was based on a true story that takes place around 1850’s.
The title of the book related to the book because the family was bad, they were almost evil. They would do things to people or people’s belongings; the people would refer to them as “The Black Donnellys”.
The event that gets the action starting is when a man gets hung in the very ...