M<scp>ark</scp> G. M<scp>cGowan</scp>. <i>The Imperial Irish: Canada’s Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914–1918</i>.
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Abstract
Mark G. McGowan has published numerous volumes on Canadian Catholic history, and in this latest volume, The Imperial Irish, he demonstrates that the Irish Canadians in the hope of Home Rule for Ireland accepted British imperial policy in regard to the South African War and first European World War. Irish immigrants who arrived in Canada in the 1820s welcomed the famine immigrants in 1847 (28). McGowan explains that the Irish Canadians found Canada a good place to live, accepted British imperial policy, and established themselves in Canada. They identified with the English culture in Ontario and the Catholic Church in Quebec but found these cultural bonds divisive. The English-speaking Irish Catholics had different interests from English Protestants and incurred discrimination on social, economic, and educational levels, but their culture was also distinctive from the deeply rooted French Canadian culture. McGowan’s introduction reveals his comfort with Canadian immigrant historiography as he places his study among the immigrant histories of Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth, John Moir, Donald Akenson, David Wilson, and Kerby Miller, offering a solid foundation for the study of Irish Canadian immigration history.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.202 | 0.069 |
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