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Title: French Perceptions of Irish Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland (Research NOTES)
Author : Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
Release Date : January 22, 2011
Genre: Reference,Books,
Pages : * pages
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DESPITE THE LONG French presence in Newfoundland, the extensive body of French commentary about the island remains relatively unexplored. Yet, for centuries, the French have been writing about the place, and their discourse has sometimes conflicted with that of their British counterparts. One example of their interest is their preoccupation with Irish settlers, who with fishermen of the West Country formed the early Newfoundland population. The following extracts from French writing illustrate what the nineteenth-century French found remarkable about Irish settlers in two distinct areas: the west coast and St. John's. THE IRISH ON THE FRENCH SHORE