{"product_id":"flight-from-famine-the-coming-of-the-irish-to-canada-paperback","title":"Flight from Famine: The Coming of the Irish to Canada - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald MacKay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. \"And that,\" wrote a Sligo countryman, \"was the beginning of the great trouble and famine that destroyed Ireland.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight from Famine\u003c\/i\u003e is the moving account of a Victorian-era tragedy that has echoes in our own time but seems hardly credible in the light of Ireland's modern prosperity. The famine survivors who helped build Canada in the years that followed Black '47 provide a testament to courage, resilience, and perseverance. By the time of Confederation, the Irish population of Canada was second only to the French, and four million Canadians can claim proud Irish descent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald MacKay's 60-year career as a reporter, broadcaster, historian, and author of 10 books has taken him to every Canadian province and a dozen countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Two of his books, \u003ci\u003eThe Lumberjacks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScotland Farewell\u003c\/i\u003e, were runners-up for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. \u003ci\u003eFlight from Famine\u003c\/i\u003e received Quebec's 1991 QSPELL Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescended from Pictou County settlers, and born and educated in Nova Scotia, he was a wartime merchant seaman, has been a reporter for Canadian Press, and covered major stories in a dozen countries for United Press International. He spent a decade as chief European correspondent for UPI Broadcast Services, based in London, and was general manager of UPI in Canada for five years before turning to writing books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald and his wife, Barbara, live in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53463472505139,"sku":"9781554884186","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/yvnC-psZUI9781554884186.webp?v=1781610600","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/flight-from-famine-the-coming-of-the-irish-to-canada-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}