In which we cover mini topics as a way of setting up the Irish influence in Canada - and how ideas of sectarianism and unity within that population are more complicated than one might think. Topics include folk music, religion, politics, and St. Patrick's Day riots!
Excerpts of the writings we discuss here: https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/episode-33-extras-some-early-irish-writing/
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Further Reading & Sources:
- Akenson, Donald Harman, and David A. Wilson. "Irish." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Davis, J.B. “Medley - On the Grand Procession in Toronto City,” The Dominion Orange Harmonist, 1876, pp.167-171. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t2891q475?urlappend=%3Bseq=180
- “I'se The B'y that builds the boat”, Great Big Sea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bQn9DtgUA
- Houston, Cecil J. "Orange Order." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Houston, Cecil J. & William J. Smyth Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links, and Letters. Toronto: U of Toronto, 1990.
- ‘Marine Marchande’ by Les Cowboys Fringants (Octobre, 2015). https://open.spotify.com/track/2rtKBSpEgk2PBbMDjjuKtV?si=e5fce04563354b78
- Moore, Thomas. “A Canadian Boat Song”, 1804. https://allpoetry.com/A-Canadian-Boat-Song
- O'Leary, Daniel. “Irish-Canadian Identity, Imperial Nationalism: Irish Book History and Print Culture in Victorian Quebec.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 61–66. www.jstor.org/stable/25515661
- Seaweed, “The Society of Masterless Men”, Green Anarchy, no. 24, 2007. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/seaweed-the-society-of-masterless-men
- Unidentified fiddle track: https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/sound/unidentified-tune-ben-lennon-fiddle
- Wilson, David A. The Irish in Canada, Canadian Historical Society, 1989.
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