Etiket: GrosseÎle
[Critique] “Grosse-Île, 1847 (in the words of those who lived through it)”: the forgotten
At Grosse-Île, 175 years ago, landed tens of thousands of men and women fleeing famine and poverty in Ireland. The playwright Émile Proulx-Cloutier, through the sole intermediary of archival texts,…
[Entrevue] “Grosse-Île, 1847”: humans facing vertigo
The La Bordée theater presents, from October 25 to November 19, the latest by Émile Proulx-Cloutier. Grosse-Île, 1847 (in the words of those who lived through it) draws from the…
[BALADO] The astonishing fate of Grosse-Île
We tend to forget it, but between 1830 and 1940, it was at this place, now called Grosse-Île-et-le-Mémorial-des-Irlandais, where immigrants were placed in complete isolation during 40 days. We wanted…