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Being Irish in Quebec

A Pictorial Album

edited by Nancy Marelli & Simon Dardick

Publisher
Vehicule Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550652567
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

The Irish have contributed to Quebec's culture since the French Regime. The immigration of the Irish to Quebec is a success story of social integration and shared identity. Being Irish in Quebec demonstrates how contemporary Quebec identity has been shaped by Irish cultural traditions. (Forty percent of Quebecers today have some Irish blood.)Photographs of paintings, documents, and artefacts evoke the experience of exile and the journey across the Atlantic as the Irish fled poverty and the Great Famine. With text and image, this book documents the establishment of religious and community institutions and presents the lives and times of a diverse gallery of famous and little-known personalities.

About the authors

Nancy Marrelli is archivist emerita, Concordia University, and the author of Stepping Out: The Golden Age of Montreal Night Clubs and Burgundy Jazz: Little Burgundy and the Story of Montreal Jazz.

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Simon Dardick's profile page