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  • Associate Professor of Canadian and Irish literature, Department of English, Languages and Cultures, Mount Royal University
The critical reappraisal of Irish and Canadian cultural relations and influences, as well as Irish encounters with Indigenous Peoples, is of current and urgent interest to both Irish and Canadian scholars. (Shutterstock)

St. Patrick’s Day: How Irish‑born writers contributed to Canadian and Irish histories

Michele Holmgren, Mount Royal University

Irish-born writers from the late 1700s to 1900 who spent time in present-day Canada influenced colonial narratives about Canadian identity or defended Irish linguistic and political autonomy.

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