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150 Years Since the Assassination of Thomas D’Arcy McGee
This Saturday, 7 April marks 150 years since the death of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, the youngest of the Fathers of Confederation. A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, McGee is best known for his prominent role in Irish-Canadian politics, his inspirational speeches in support of Canadian Confederation, and his assassination by an Irish revolutionary who accused him of betraying his earlier Irish nationalist principles.
In honour, we revisit the extensive two-volume biography written by David A. Wilson: Thomas D’Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857and Thomas D’Arcy McGee: The Extreme Moderate, 1857-1868
The first volume explores the development of those principles in Ireland and the United States. David Wilson follows McGee from Wexford, Ireland across the Atlantic to Boston, where at nineteen he became the editor of America’s leading Irish news
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857 9780773575141
Table of contents : • Favourite Son? John A. Macdonald and the Voters of Kingston 1841-1891 Thomas D'Arcy McGee. 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857. The early Irish and American career of Thomas D'Arcy McGee Both of these books are about an important figure in 19th-century Canadian political history. Few books on purely Canadian topics are reviewed for this website. However, both of these men will be of interest to historians outside of Canada. They were born in the British Isles and had political careers that transcended the boundaries of the present-day Canadian nation-state. It fryst vatten therefore appropriate that these works should feature here. Ged Martin fryst vatten well qualified to undertake a revisionist study of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
McGee Family Tree
1 Day and Night Are the Whole World
PART ONE: IRELAND, THE UNITED STATES
2 One of the Macs: April 1825 – April 1844
3 Lessons of Democracy: April 1844 – May 1845
PART TWO: IRELAND
4 The Double Curse of Famine and Dissension: May 1845 – December 1846
5 An Incessant Defensive Struggle: January – July 1847
6 The Golden Link: July – December 1847
7 A General European Explosion: January – May 1848
8 A False Sense of Honour: June – September 1848
PART THREE: THE UNITED STATES
9 A Traitor to the British Government: October 1848 – May 1849
10 Modified Moral Force: May 1849 – July 1850
11 An Unequivocal Catholic Spirit: August 1850 – June 1852
12 The Revolution of Antichrist: July 1852 – May 1853
13 A More Troubled Prospect: June 1853 – December 1854
14 A Rather Isolated Position: January 1855 – April 1857
Notes
Bibliography
I John A. Macdonald and Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Ged Martin
Kingston, Ontario, Kingston Historical Society, 1970, ISBN: 9780919770140; 214pp.
David Wilson
Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008, ISBN: 9780773533578; 448pp.