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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee , 1825-68, Canadian journalist and statesman, a leader in the movement for confederation, b. Ireland. He emigrated (1842) to Boston, where he became editor of the Boston Pilot, but in 1845 he returned to Ireland to join the staff of the Dublin Freeman's Journal. Later McGee transferred to the Nation, journal of the Young Ireland party. Implicated in the uprising of 1848, he fled to America. He edited Irish papers in New York City and Boston before settling (1857) in Montreal, where he started the New Era. Entering (1858) the Canadian legislature, McGee became president of the council (1862) and minister of agriculture (1864). His anti-British position had changed, and he lent his brilliant oratory to the cause of Canadian confederation within the empire. He lived to see it take place (1867), but the following year he was assassinated by a member of the Fenian movement , whose tactics McGee had denounced. |
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"Thomas D'Arcy McGee." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Thomas D'Arcy McGee." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-McGee-Th.html "Thomas D'Arcy McGee." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-McGee-Th.html |
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McGee, Thomas D'Arcy
McGee, Thomas D'Arcy (1825–68), Young Irelander. Born in Carlingford, Co. Louth, McGee emigrated to Boston in 1842 but returned in 1845 to write for the Freeman's Journal. He joined the Nation in 1846 and was secretary of the Irish Confederation from June 1847. As a member of the confederate war council he sought to raise support in Scotland in July 1848, but fled to America when the rising failed. Moving to Montreal in 1857, McGee became prominent in the movement for Canadian confederation. He was assassinated in 1868 after condemning Fenianism.
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"McGee, Thomas D'Arcy." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "McGee, Thomas D'Arcy." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-McGeeThomasDArcy.html "McGee, Thomas D'Arcy." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-McGeeThomasDArcy.html |
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