Brian Moore's Unsettling Irish Immigrant: The Luck of Ginger Coffey

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Author/collaborator
Title
Brian Moore's Unsettling Irish Immigrant: The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Abstract
Brian Moore's classic novel, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960), follows the fortunes of an Irish immigrant and his family over a few weeks in 1950s Montreal. Employing recent scholarly work that has been done on the Irish in Canada, the author contextualizes Moore's novel in a mildly corrective history of Irish immigration, multiculturalism, discrimination, integration, and Canada's tolerance of immigrants' tenaciously mistaken dreams.
Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d'études canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 49
Issue
no. 3
Pages
55-75
Date
Fall 2015
Language
en
Citation
Lynch, Gerald. “Brian Moore’s Unsettling Irish Immigrant: The Luck of Ginger Coffey.” Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes Vol. 49, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 55–75.
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