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From Cork to the New World

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Publisher
Borealis
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Irish
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Ontario, fiction
  • Ireland, fiction
  • Irlandais

A work of historical fiction based on a true story. Rather than watch their children weaken and starve, the McCarthy and Sullivan families leave poverty-striken Ireland to become part of the Peter Robinson Settlement in Canada. Robinson, a member of the Canadian Upper Parliament, was responsible for bringing thousands of Irish settlers to Canada, where they vastly improved their situation through hard work and determination.