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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