'The House of the Irish': Irishness, History, and Memory in Griffintown, Montreal, 1868-2009

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
'The House of the Irish': Irishness, History, and Memory in Griffintown, Montreal, 1868-2009
Abstract
An examination of the Irish Catholic identity in Griffintown, a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal. Griffintown was both the first and last Irish-Catholic neighbourhood in the city. The author examines the development and functioning of a diasporic Irish culture in the neighbourhood, which at times shielded its residents from the goings-on of the wider city, and at other times allowed for the forging of common cause across class lines. Following the Second World War, Irish Griffintown disappeared, and the Irish Catholic identity broke down as Irish Montrealers made common cause with the city's Anglo-Protestants to forge a new alliance: Anglo-Montreal. The author concludes by examining the resurgence of Irish Montreal pride at the end of the twentieth century.
Type
PhD dissertation
University
Concordia University
Place
Montreal
Date
2009
# of Pages
xii-325p.
Language
en
URL
Citation
Barlow, John Matthew. “‘The House of the Irish’: Irishness, History, and Memory in Griffintown, Montreal, 1868-2009.” PhD dissertation, Concordia University, 2009. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/NR63386.PDF.
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