biography
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McGee, Thomas D'Arcy
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| lived:
| (1825–68)
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| biography:
| Writer and politician, born in Carlingford, Co Louth, NE Ireland. After a Catholic education, he worked briefly in Quebec and Boston, wrote fiction, and supported a variety of romantic causes. He returned to Ireland in 1845, where he was identified with the Young Ireland Nation. After the abortive rebellion of 1848 he fled to the USA, where he established the American Celt and the New Era newspapers. He took Canadian citizenship, became an MP in 1858, and was minister of agriculture (1864–8). He was assassinated in Ottawa at the time of his opposition to a threatened Fenian invasion of Canada. His published works include A Popular History of Ireland (1862–9) and Poems (1869). |
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