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Exiles and Islanders
The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
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Exiles and Islanders describes Irish settlement in Prince Edward Island from 1763 to 1880. By tracing the history of these early settlers, Brendan O'Grady demolishes the myth that the Island's Irish settlers were largely refugees from the Great Potato Famine. Using a wide variety of sources, including folklore, newspaper reports, personal interviews, letters, shipping records, and historical data, O'Grady goes beyond mere statistics. We learn about settlers' hometowns in Ireland, why they left, when and how they came to Prince Edward Island, where they settled, and how they adapted to living in PEI. Over ten thousand Irish settled in PEI in the nineteenth century; by 1850 they comprised about a quarter of the Island's population. They were mainly pre-Famine immigrants and mostly Catholic. They came from all thirty-two counties of Ireland and settled in all sixty-seven townships of PEI. They took up farming, fishing, and rural occupations; raised large families; and retained their Irishness for several generations. Exiles and Islanders includes family names and places of origin that will be of particular interest to the Island's Irish descendants. An intriguing cultural history, the book provides new insight into the early settlers of Prince Edward Island.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Brendan O'Grady
Brendan O'Grady (1925-2018) was a long-time PEI resident and wrote several articles on Irish immigrants in PEI for the Abegweit Review and other journals. He was a past president of the PEI Celtic Heritage Association and professor emeritus at the University of Prince Edward Island.
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"O'Grady's analysis of the patterns of immigration and the course of settlement on Prince Edward Island to be convincing, comprehensive, accurate, and suggestive. His work on the Monaghan Irish has been groundbreaking, and his tracing of the ties between southeastern Ireland and Prince Edward Island was new and enlightening. This book solidifies O'Grady's past work on the role played by Newfoundland and has added material on the earliest, most piecemeal phase of Irish immigration, for which there is no easily discernible pattern." Edward MacDonald, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Illustrations and Maps
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Prologue
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The Legacy of New Ireland
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Less-Travelled Roads
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The Meeting of the Waters
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An Irish Principality
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Kings County’s Irish Domain
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County Monaghan before the Emigration to Prince Edward Island
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The Monaghan Settlers: A People Set Apart
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The Crown and the Harp
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Storm over Belfast: An Irish Retrospective
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An Island of Destiny
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Epilogue
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Notes
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Index
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eBook ISBN:
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360
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
