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Flight from Famine
- The Coming of the Irish to Canada
Engelsk
Bogcover for Flight from Famine af Donald MacKay, 9781554884186
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781554884186
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1554884187
Udg. Dato:
7 maj 2009
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,4 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
7 maj 2009
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Flight from Famine

- The Coming of the Irish to Canada
Engelsk
Paperback 2009
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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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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781554884186
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1554884187
Udg. Dato:
7 maj 2009
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,4 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
7 maj 2009
Forfatter(e):
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