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Benevolent Irish Society fonds

  • CA PCNCU S1983001
  • Fonds
  • 1871-1880, 1982-1983

During the summers of 1982 and 1983, the Benevolent Irish Society secured funding to hire a group of students to conduct an oral history project and interview individuals of Irish descent from across Prince Edward Island. The fonds consists of th...

Benevolent Irish Society

Local Histories : [ca. 1895, ca. 1965]

This series contains photocopies of two short local histories which Dr. Shaw appears to have collected while he was working on the Gaelic field recording project. These include a booklet celebrating the Strathalbyn Jubilee (ca. 1895) and a handw...

Project inventory and publicity

This series consists of a detailed inventory of the Gaelic field recording project conducted by Dr. John Shaw in 1987. The project inventory, created by Dr. Michael Kennedy in 2002, includes a preface, a brief history of Gaelic on Prince Edward I...

Minutes

This series consists of the minutes of the Benevolent Irish Society for the period 1871 to 1880. During this period, meetings were held quarterly in the St. Andrew's Hall, St. Patrick's Hall, and St. Dunstan's Reading Room in Charl...

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