Being Irish in Quebec
A Pictorial Album
- Publisher
- Vehicule Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Category
- General
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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.
