Ireland's Great Famine produced Europe's worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly…

McGowan traces the evolution of the Catholic community from an isolated religious and Irish ethnic subculture into an integrated segment of English-Canadian society by the early twentieth century.

Memorialized in art, sculpture, epigraphy, and of course texts, the theme of death and rebirth became a central focus of the Christian religion as it developed in late antiquity. This…