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Flight from Famine

- The Coming of the Irish to Canada
Af: Donald MacKay Engelsk Paperback

Flight from Famine

- The Coming of the Irish to Canada
Af: Donald MacKay Engelsk Paperback
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Winner of the 1991 QSPELL Prize for Non-fiction

One of Canada’s founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland’s potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman, "was the beginning of the great trouble and famine that destroyed Ireland."

Flight from Famine is the moving account of a Victorian-era tragedy that has echoes in our own time but seems hardly credible in the light of Ireland’s modern prosperity. The famine survivors who helped build Canada in the years that followed Black ’47 provide a testament to courage, resilience, and perseverance. By the time of Confederation, the Irish population of Canada was second only to the French, and four million Canadians can claim proud Irish descent.

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Winner of the 1991 QSPELL Prize for Non-fiction

One of Canada’s founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland’s potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman, "was the beginning of the great trouble and famine that destroyed Ireland."

Flight from Famine is the moving account of a Victorian-era tragedy that has echoes in our own time but seems hardly credible in the light of Ireland’s modern prosperity. The famine survivors who helped build Canada in the years that followed Black ’47 provide a testament to courage, resilience, and perseverance. By the time of Confederation, the Irish population of Canada was second only to the French, and four million Canadians can claim proud Irish descent.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9781554884186
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1554884187
Kategori: Genealogi, heraldik og navnehistorie
Udg. Dato: 7 maj 2009
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 228mm
Forlag: Dundurn Group Ltd
Oplagsdato: 7 maj 2009
Forfatter(e): Donald MacKay
Forfatter(e) Donald MacKay

Kategori Genealogi, heraldik og navnehistorie

ISBN-13 9781554884186

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 154mm

Højde 228mm

Udg. Dato 7 maj 2009

Oplagsdato 7 maj 2009

Forlag Dundurn Group Ltd