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Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857
David A. Wilson
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Description for Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857
paperback. A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, Thomas D'Arcy 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 Num Pages: 448 pages, 31 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, Thomas D'Arcy 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. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, the first volume in a two-part biography, 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 newspaper, and traces his subsequent involvement with ... Read more
A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, Thomas D'Arcy 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. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, the first volume in a two-part biography, 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 newspaper, and traces his subsequent involvement with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773540231
SKU
V9780773540231
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About David A. Wilson
David A. Wilson is professor in celtic studies and history at the University of Toronto. He is the author and editor of several books including Ireland, A Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle and United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Repub
Reviews for Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857
"...a brilliant piece of scholarship: exhaustively researched, scrupulously fair, thoroughly documented." Roger Hall, Globe & Mail "...both elegant and mature, a biographical tour de force." Victor Rabinovitch, Literary Review of Canada