Despite the enormous accomplishments of Irish immigrants, detailed knowledge of the integral role they have played in the evolution of Canadian society is scarce and incidental, since few formal ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record ...

On 13 July 1922 the newly established Irish Republican League of Canada (IRL) organised a lecture by Irish republican labour activist Jim Larkin at Montreal’s Auditorium Hall. Over the course of ...

Between 1920 and 1922, a formidable network of Irish nationalists emerged in British North America: the Self-Determination for Ireland League of Canada and Newfoundland (SDIL). Thousands of men ...

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