The Irish famine led to massive emigration to Canada and here you will find some books on that period of history. There are links below to books showing how the Irish fared out in Britain, the Southern Hemisphere and the United States following emigration and also highlighting social changes in Ireland from the 7th. century onwards.

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Please enter your email address here if interested in receiving our monthly newsletter: The Irish in Ontario : A Study in Rural History  by Donald Harman Akenson For most of the nineteenth century the Irish formed the largest non-French ethnic group in central Canada. Donald Akenson analyses the process of their settlement in an eastern Ontario township and dispels some of the myths about the Irish as urban dwellers.  Price: $24.95 Famine Diary : Journey to a New World  by James J. Mangan, Gerald Keegan This is a very disquieting book if you have believed all the stories that the Famine was somehow brought on by the Irish, and that the emigration to America, Canada and Australia was a voluntary one. My own site has three pages dedicated to the Irish Famine story and can be found at the following:   Westport, Sligo  and Grosse-Île Price: $10.95 Canada : Portraits of Faith  by Michael D. Clarke "This remarkable book should be found in every library, every classroom, every pastor's study, and in the offices of every profession, teacher and politician. It should also be found in every home whose inhabitants care about the impact of Christianity in this country in earlier times."  Price: $44.95 Grandmother Remembers Grosse Ile  by Jeanette Masson Recollections of the tragic events surrounding Grosse-Île, the quarantine island east of Quebec. My own site has three pages dedicated to the Irish Famine story and can be found at the following:   Westport, Sligo  and Grosse-Île Price: $15.00 Grosse Ile Gateway to Canada The history of the St. Lawrence River Quarantine Station from 1832 to 1937. Three chapters are devoted to the Irish connection. Also available in French as Grosse Ile Porte d'Entree du Canada. My own site has three pages dedicated to the Irish Famine story and can be found at the following:   Westport, Sligo  and Grosse-Île Price: $17.99 The Voyage of the Naparima   by James J. Mangan Recounts the tale of a family, a young married couple, an uncle and two cousins of the groom, who travel from County Sligo to Dublin during the Famine to take ship for Canada. It results in death on the quarantine island of Grosse-Île. My own site has three pages dedicated to the Irish Famine story and can be found at the following:   Westport, Sligo  and Grosse-Île Price: $19.00 1847, Grosse Ile: A Record of Daily Events  by Andre Charbonneau, Andre Sevigny, Canada Parks Price: $29.95 My own site has three pages dedicated to the Irish Famine story and can be found at the following: Westport, Sligo  and Grosse-Île Flight from Famine : The Coming of the Irish to Canada by Donald MacKay Price: $16.95 The Uncounted Irish in Canada and the United States  by Margaret E. Fitzgerald,  Joseph A. King Price: $37.95 The Faraway Hills Are Green : Voices of Irish Women in Canada  by Sheelagh Conway Price: $18.95 The Irish in North America: A Regional Bibliography by Seamus P. Metress, Donna Hardy Johnston,  Price: $26.95 Small Differences : Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922 : An International Perspective (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of religion)  by Donald Harman Akenson Price: $22.95 Untold Story : The Irish in Canada (2-Volume Set)  by Robert O'Driscoll, Lorna Reynolds Price: $75.00 Ireland to North America : Emigrants from West Cork (Irish History & Emigration)  by Joseph A. King Our Price: $13.95 Irish Migrants in Canadas : A New Approach (McGill Queens Univ Studies in Ethnic History Vol 1)  by Bruce S. Elliott  Price: $65.00 Robert Whyte's 1847 Famine Ship Diary : The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship by Robert Whyte, James J. Mangan Price:$11.95 A New Lease on Life : Landlords, Tenants, and Immigrants in Ireland and Canada (McGill Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)  by Catharine Anne Wilson Price: $42.95 The Orangeman : The Life and Times of Ogle Gowan, the Irish Scoundrel Who Made Canada Orange by Donald Harman Akenson Price: $24.95 Piety and Nationalism : Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an Irish-Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895 (McGill-Queen's Studies in T) by Brian P. Clarke Price: $44.95 Riots in New Brunswick : Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s (Social History of Canada, 48)  by Scott W. See Analyzes the violent confrontations between Catholic and Protestant Irish in eastern Canada during the 1840s and the social, political, economic, and cultural tensions that lay behind the conflict.  Price: $19.95 Creed and Culture : The Place of English-Speaking Catholics in Canadian Society, 1750-1930 (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion)  by Terrence Murphy, Gerald Stortz Price: $49.95 MORE BOOKS ON IRISH SOCIAL HISTORY IRISH SOCIAL HISTORY | THE IRISH IN AMERICA  | THE IRISH IN BRITAIN THE IRISH IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

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