HIS312H1 Lecture : The Irish

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13 Jan 2011
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Institutions: the loyal orange lodge (the orange order) *to hand in primary source essay, 4 pgs, 15% of grade. Largest number of arrivals, after 1815 were the irish to british n. america. Participated in canal bldg in the 1830s-1840s, before the railroad era. Stereotypes of irish being prone to crime and alcoholism. More then half the irish were the protestant irish migrating to canada. Ppl who went to the us were of the middling ranks, could finance their own immigration. 1600s: eng planted scottish presbyterians in n. ire, ulster, as a way to strengthen their control over ire, as previously had been pretty lax. Sharp distinctions/tensions betw. local catholics and new scot. prots. Then imposed an ango-irish elite, who originated in eng, well connected to gov"t/the crown, given positions of power, legal system/politics/religion. The church of ireland, anglican church in ire. Sig. numbers came to canada, from nfld, to s. montreal, n. brunswick.

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