Remembering a Memory: A Film About the Celtic Cross on Grosse-Île

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Remembering a Memory: A Film About the Celtic Cross on Grosse-Île
Abstract
The film explores the various stories inspired by the immense Celtic Cross constructed in 1909 on Grosse-Île, a tiny island near Quebec City, which is the site of the largest cemetery outside Ireland connected with the Potato Famine of the 1840s. The film reflects on how and why the memories evoked by Grosse-Île have so dramatically shifted over the past century. In 1909, the unveiling ceremony underscored the bicultural understanding, with speeches in both Irish and French, pointing to a shared Irish-French Canadian legacy borne out of the tragedy of the 1840s. Exactly 100 years after the unveiling, however, little of that shared understanding remained as the centenary events were staged exclusively in English, with barely a word of recognition that French Canadians had been a part of the Grosse-Île experience.
Date
2011
Genre
Documentary
Running Time
26 minutes
Language
en
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McMahon, Robert. Remembering a Memory: A Film About the Celtic Cross on Grosse-Île. Documentary, 2011. http://rememberingamemory.cohds.ca/index.html.
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