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2015., Adult, Patrick Crean Editions Call No: SC 971.004 M146c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "More than nine million Canadians claim Scottish or Irish heritage. Did the ancestors of more than one quarter of our population arrive without cultural baggage? No history, no values, no vision? Impossible. McGoogan writes that, to understand who we are and where we are going, Canadians must look to cultural genealogy. Scottish and Irish immigrants arrived in Canada with values they had learned from their forebears. And they did so early enough, and in sufficient numbers, to shape an emerging Canadian nation. McGoogan highlights five of the values they imported as foundational: independence, audacity, democracy, pluralism and perseverance. He shows that these values are thriving in contemporary Canada, and traces their evolution through the lives of thirty prominent individuals -- heroes, rebels, poets, inventors, pirate queens -- who played formative roles in the histories of Scotland and Ireland. Two charged traditions came together and gave rise to a Canadian nation. That is when Celtic lightning struck"--Provided by publisher.
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c2013., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: SC IND 325.3 M889i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish and Scottish migrants had with Indigenous peoples in North America and Australasia. The Irish and Scots were among the most active and enthusiastic participants in what one contributor describes as "the greatest single period of land theft, cultural pillage, and casual genocide in world history." At the same time, some settlers attempted to understand Indigenous society rather than destroy it, while others incorporated a romanticized view of Natives into a radical critique of European society, and others still empathized with Natives as fellow victims of imperialism. These essays investigate the extent to which the condition of being Irish and Scottish affected settlers' attitudes to Indigenous peoples, and examine the political, social, religious, cultural, and economic dimensions of their interactions. Presenting a variety of viewpoints, the editors reach the provocative conclusion that the Scottish and Irish origins of settlers were less important in determining attitudes and behaviour than were the specific circumstances in which those settlers found themselves at different times and places in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
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By Burns, Mike2014., 20 min, MacLeod Nine Productions Call No: DVD Fic Irishman (2014) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Water of Life SeriesSummary Note: In The Irishman - Child of the Gael, our narrator, Sean recounts his maternal and paternal ancestors' dramatic immigrant experiences in Canada from the 1800s to the early 20th century. Fleeing desperate conditions in Ireland, survival in the new world is a struggle of a different sort, involving quarantine, isolation and backbreaking employment, building the Victoria Bridge, constructing the railways and canals that will open Canada's frontiers to trade and settlement. In The Irishman - Child of the Gael, Montreal filmmaker G. Scott MacLeod fuses rich pencil animation with new digital media to provide a deeply moving depiction of an iconic early Canadian immigrant experience. Written and narrated by Burns, a celebrated Montreal storyteller, The Irishman - Child of the Gael is the story of thousands of Irish immigrants to this country who arrived to unthinkable conditions and who went on to build the very roads and railways that made prosperity possible.
![The Irishman [DVD] (2014). Directed by G. Scott MacLeod. : Child of the Gael](/Library/images/~imageCT102407.JPG "The Irishman [DVD] (2014). Directed by G. Scott MacLeod. : Child of the Gael")
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[2015], Adult, Pottersfield Press Call No: Bio O33p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Patrick O'Flaherty's lively memoir of childhood in a small secluded Newfoundland community, Northern Bay, on the northern tip of Conception Bay on the Bay de Verde Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador,covering the years 1939-54. This time is most unique because it is a bridge between the old Newfoundland with its curious links to England, Ireland, and Scotland, and its new status, after 1949, as a province of Canada. O'Flaherty reimagines just what that lost world was like, how children figured into it, how his family and other families functioned and what part religion played. A Newfoundlander, the son of a fisherman in a small coastal Newfoundland village, Patrick O'Flaherty is a retired professor of English. His books include a history of his homeland, Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843. He has also published Come Near at your Peril (a candid visitors guide to the island that the provincial government banned from its tourist chalets), two collections of short stories, and two novels. He now lives in St. John's"--Provided by publisher.
