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| | Newfoundland and Labrador GenWeb - The Irish in Newfoundland 1623 - 1800 - Michael J. McCarthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Students of the coming of the Irish to, and settlement in, Newfoundland face a formidable task: primary data is scattered along both sides of the Atlantic, no book-length treatments of the subject have been published, and archaeologists have not yet unearthed material evidence which sheds light on the initial connections between the two islands. |
 | | The number of Irish passengers coming to Newfoundland, as Mannion points out (1980:27),...grew gradually, from around, 1,000 persons in the 1730s to 2,000 in 1750 and on to a peak of more than 5,000 a year in the late 1770s and 1780s, when the total summer population was around 30,000. |
 | | The year 1789 is an important date in the history of the Newfoundland Irish, for in the summer of the year the populace of St. John's, or at least the non-Irish populace, was very alarmed by what appeared to be the dumping of a cargo of Irish convicts in Newfoundland. |
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