Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2014

“Je ne suis jamais allé en Irlande". An Irish Journey to La Beauce, Quebec

Résumé

Complex diasporic factors brought successive waves of immigrants from Ireland to Quebec in the period 1700-1850. These epic journeys are duly inscribed in the social history of the province, from the Wild Geese Irish who arrived with the French army in the eighteenth century, to the orphans of the Great Famine who found generous homes and warm hearts in Quebec in 1847. Today, the descendants of these immigrants comprise forty percent of French-speaking Quebecers and are seen as models of integration by their host society. From fishing villages in the Gaspé, to ghettos, news desks and government chambers in Montreal and Quebec City, the Irish left lasting imprints on the political, social and economic life of La Belle Province. They were prominent too in its artistic life, in its literature and its music. Quebec today houses one of the most ex-traordinary repositories of Irish music in North America. Similarly, its myths, legends and folkways transferred across the Atlantic and were absorbed into the emergent cultures of nineteenth-century Quebec. Today, these Irish artifacts, mentifacts and sociofacts form key elements in le patrimoine vivant of the province. This case study explores their presence in three Irish villages in La Beauce, a farming region in the foothills of the Appalachians in rural Quebec.

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hal-03996494 , version 1 (20-02-2023)

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Noémie Beck, Gearóid Ó Hallmhuráin. “Je ne suis jamais allé en Irlande". An Irish Journey to La Beauce, Quebec. Máirtín Ó Catháin; Mícheál Ó hAodha. Seeking the Fair Land? Irish Migrants in New Communities, Lexington Books, pp.29-44, 2014, 0739173820, 9780739173824. ⟨hal-03996494⟩
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