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At Face Value spins the tale of John White, a trusty Tory backbencher in Canada's post-Confederation Parliament who was unusually sympathetic to women and Indigenous communities. Hewing closely to the archival record, it nevertheless diverges on one crucial point, reimagining White as a woman named Eliza McCormack.

The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from Ireland who brought the Orange Order to central Canada, to explore the migration and prejudice that shaped Canadian politics. This lively novel shows that while one never knows everything about a historical person, sometimes the right thing to do is speculate sensibly.

The assumption that Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics are fundamentally different is central to modern Irish history. There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that either presuppose the existence of Irish Catholic-Protestant differences

St Patrick catching sight of Ireland for the first time as he arrives as a prisoner, Joyce and Yeats eating sticky buns in a Dublin café. In a daring, genre-breaking work, the world's foremost scholar of the Irish diaspora fuses history and fiction into a

A comparative history of European emigration.

For most of the nineteenth century, the Irish formed the largest non-French ethnic group in central Canada and their presence was particularly significant in Ontario. This study presents a general discussion of the Irish in Ontario during the nineteenth century and a close analysis of the process of settlement and adaptation by the Irish in Leeds and Lansdowne township.

Donald Harman Akenson is Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen's University.

Donald Akenson writes authoritatively and with verve about this controversial mixture of religion, politics, and culture ... this is a good book that rewards repeated readings." Books in Canada

St Patrick catching sight of Ireland for the first time as he arrives as a prisoner, Joyce and Yeats eating sticky buns in a Dublin café. In a daring, genre-breaking work, the world's foremost scholar of the Irish diaspora fuses history and fiction into a

Donald Harman Akenson is Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen's University.

In Saint Saul Donald Harman Akenson shows that the answer to the most persistent question in Christianity What do we really know about the historical Jesus? is found largely in the writings of an itinerant preacher named Saul. Saul, the author of the Epistles and better known to Christians as Saint Paul, is the closest thing we have to a direct witness. Akenson demonstrates that only through Saul do we have the opportunity to encounter Yeshua ...