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Find out more about the fascinating Connolly history, through this new publication by Leonard Cusack Owen Connolly: The Making of a Legacy 1820-2016.

 

• Owen Connolly: The Making of a Legacy 1820 to 2016
  A new history (2017) by Leonard Cusack, tracing Owen Connolly's fascinating journey from young immigrant escaping poverty, to prominent merchant, to benevolent founder of a trust left to support the education of disadvantaged students on Prince Edward Island
• Archive Council of Prince Edward Island holdings for Owen Connolly
  A short history of Owen Connolly, and list of archival materials held at the Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island
• UPEI Institute of Island Studies biography of Owen Connolly and other Island entrepreneurs (Adobe PDF)
  Written by David Cousins, through the project Some Island Entrepreneurs, led by the Institute of Island Studies at UPEI, with the financial assistance of the Institute's Public Policy Partnership with the Province of Prince Edward Island.
• "Historic Places of Prince Edward Island"
  On-line entry on the Connolly Building at 75 Queen Street, which features the Owen Connolly Bust.
• "A 'New Ireland Lost': The Irish Presence in Prince Edward Island"
  An article by Dr. Brendan O'Grady on the Irish immigration to P.E.I. in the 19th century
• Exiles and Islanders: The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island
  Publisher's website for book by Dr. Brendan O'Grady, the most comprehensive book on the history of the Irish and Irish settlement on Prince Edward Island