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Flight from Famine: The Coming of the Irish to Canada

Flight from Famine One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. This book presents an 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. Full description

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