Autor/-in: John Mannion

John Mannion. holds a BA and MA from University College Dublin, and a PhD from the University of Toronto. Now retired, he was a professor of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's from 1969 to 2005. Much of his research and publications focus on patterns of Irish participation in the international cod fishery from 1700, transatlantic shipping and migration, the Irish provisions trade, and the role of merchants and shipowners in recruiting servants in south-east Ireland to prosecute the fishery.