Reconstructs voyages of exploration and piracy that led to settlements on Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland and Vinland, from 960 to 1010 A.D.
Irish
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Author:MOWAT, FarleySummary: - Author:MITCHELL, JohnSummary:
Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these. Ostensibly the charming remembrance of an Irish orphan who escapes the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and comes to the New World to seek a fresh start on the...
- Author:Blackburn McBride, RobinSummary:
The Shining Fragments is a family saga about the Irish in Canada that explores the ramifications of abandonment, obsession, love, memory, and visionary power. Spanning the years 1882-1904, it follows Joseph Conlon from his early...
- Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:
Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who’d left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station—and a mystery. The shack was abandoned, but...
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Author:Curtis, Christopher PaulSummary:Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and...
- Author:BOYLE, Harry J.Summary:
Warm humerous story about an Irish-Canadian farming community. a good old-fashioned easy paced story with a happy ending and a few surprises.
- Author:MOORE, BrianSummary:
"No, for wasn't this the chance he had always wanted? Wasn't he at long last an adventurer, a man who had gambled all on one horse, a horse coloured Canada, which now by hook or by crook would carry him to fame and...
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Author:Summary:The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view of the Irish historical and cultural experiences as phenomena transcending traditional chronological, topical and ethnic paradigms. Edited by David T. Gleeson...
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Author:Mutch, BarbaraSummary:"Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiance she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a...
- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
In the nineteenth century, Ireland lost half of its population to famine, emigration to the United States and Canada, and the forced transportation of convicts to Australia. Based on unique research among little-known sources, this book...
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Author:Katie FlynnSummary: -
Author:Tilberg, MarySummary:In 1831, eighteen-year-old Oonagh Corcoran emigrates with her sister from southern Ireland to Upper Canada. In the deep folds of cool, green forest off the vast inland sea of Lake Ontario, she believes she has found paradise -- only to...
- Author:Savignac, LinaSummary:
Le clan O’Reilly tente de rassembler ses fils autour du patriarche, mais bien vite des dissensions s’élèvent entre les trois demi-frères. Les divergences de fortune et d’intérêts rompent l’harmonie précaire qui régnait au sein de la...
- Author:Savignac, LinaSummary:
Tome 1 Hiver 1864, la famille O’Reilly fuit l’Irlande à bord d’un bateau en direction du Nouveau Monde. Après un bref arrêt à l’Île de la Quarantaine, Elwin, unique survivant du clan, arrive à Québec. Les autorités confient le jeune...
- Author:Dorries, NadineSummary:
In the Four Streets in Liverpool, a dreadful murder has been committed, and 14-year-old Kitty Doherty is pregnant with the dead man's child. This secret is so dangerous that her mother, Maura, and the redoubtable Kathleen, her best...
- Author:Groom, Susan OvensSummary:
- Author:Heneghan, JamesSummary:
When a flood kills eleven-year-old Andy Flynn's mother and stepfather, the only world he has ever known is gone and he is alone. Aunt Mona, whom he has never met, takes him to live with her in Halifax, on the opposite side of the...
- Author:Urquhart, JaneSummary:
An Irish family escapes the potato famine by emigrating to Canada. The novel traces its contribution to the culture of its adopted land--from Irish sense of humor to Irish idealism--the latter leading one of its members to engage in...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
"In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster - only to land in another. After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family. But typhus and other illnesses...
