The Exile Breed Quotes

“Montreal Transcript, January 1848: From Grosse Île, the great charnel house of victimised humanity, up to Port Sarnia – along the borders of our magnificent river, upon the shores of Lakes Ontario and Erie, and wherever the tide of immigration has extended, are to be found the resting places of the sons and daughters of Erin – one unbroken chain of graves where repose fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers in one comingled heap, without a tear bedewing the soil or a stone to mark the spot.”
― Charles Egan, The Exile Breed: The Pitiless Epic of the Irish Famine Diaspora

“You said you weren’t working in the sheds, Sarah.’ ‘And what of it? There’s work to be done.’ ‘You’ll get fever.’ ‘Maybe I will. And maybe mother will too. It’s what we have to do, isn’t it?”
― Charles Egan, The Exile Breed