Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825–1868)
Auteur van History of the Irish Settlers in North America from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850
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Fotografie: Canada. Patent and Copyright Office / Bureau des brevets et du droit d'auteur; Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada; nlc-54336
Werken van Thomas D'Arcy McGee
History of the Irish Settlers in North America from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850 (1852) 31 exemplaren
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Complete (1863) 21 exemplaren
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 1 (1863) 19 exemplaren
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 (1863) 18 exemplaren
Proceedings of the Educational symposium on refractories in slagging environments presented by National Institute of… (2008) 4 exemplaren
A collection of papers on engineering aspects of fabrication and processing of ceramics (1993) 4 exemplaren
A history of the attempts to establish the Protestant Reformation in Ireland : and the successful resistance of that… (1853) 4 exemplaren
A History of the Irish Settlers in North America: From the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850 (2016) 2 exemplaren
The Catholic history of North America 1 exemplaar
A Popular History of Ireland 1 exemplaar
A Popular History of Ireland, Books 5-12 1 exemplaar
1825 - D'Arcy McGee - 1925 : a collection of speeches and addresses, together with a complete report of the… 1 exemplaar
Historical sketches of O'Connell and his friends 1 exemplaar
History of Ireland 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- McGee, Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Grace Hughes (birth name)
- Geboortedatum
- 1825-04-13
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1868-04-07
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Ireland
- Plaats van overlijden
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (assassinated)
- Woonplaatsen
- Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland
New York, New York, USA
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Beroepen
- journalist
politician
poet - Relaties
- Sadlier, Mary Anne Madden (friend)
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- Werken
- 19
- Ook door
- 1
- Leden
- 114
- Populariteit
- #171,985
- Waardering
- 4.1
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 34
McGee is a fascinating character, a Young Irelander who crossed the Atlantic and shifted dramatically from urging American annexation of Canada to playing a key role in the creation of the Canadian confederation in 1867, the year before he was assassinated coming home from a parliamentary debate in Ottawa (where he represented Montreal). He was one of the most noted orators of his time, and his death sent shockwaves through the Canadian political system.
Great orator he may have been, but his 1860 Popular History of Ireland is deadly dull, and I did not make it past the year 879 - chloroform in print, as Mark Twain so unkindly said of the Book of Mormon. Perhaps it livens up in the more modern period, but the early chapters are simply lists of kings without much sense of what if anything they actually did. I skipped ahead to some of the eras that I know a bit more about, and, well, the kindest thing to be said is that most of it has been overtaken by more recent scholarship.… (meer)