Background
Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee was born on 13 April 1825 in Carlingford, Ireland.
(Covers the early explorations of North America, the settl...)
Covers the early explorations of North America, the settlements of the Irish, their role in the AThis volume begins with a brief account of early explorations of North America. Several chapters are then devoted to a discussion of the first settlements of Irish immigrants in the various colonies of North America, followed by descriptions of the Irish role in the American Revolution and the early Federal period. There are also discussions of the Irish Famines of 1846-7 and 1848, the Irish in Mexico and South America, and the Irish population of the United States as revealed in the Federal Census of 1850. Copies of the original printing of this book are difficult to find. An every name index has been added as an aid to researchers.merican Revolution and the early Federal Period, the famines of 1846-48 and the Irish in Mexico and South America.
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Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee was born on 13 April 1825 in Carlingford, Ireland.
In 1842 he emigrated to the United States and joined the staff of the Boston Pilot. He returned to Dublin in 1845. Three years later he took a leading part in the unsuccessful attempt of the Young Ireland Party to foment a revolution and was forced to flee to the United States. He established the New York Nation, an Irish-American organ. Later, in Boston, he established the American Celt. His revolutionary views changed and he went to Montreal, Canada, in 1857, where he established the New Era, in which he advocated the creation of a Canadian nation. In 1858 he was elected to Parliament, and supported the confederation. In 1865 McGee denounced the Irish movement in America that was known as the Fenian Brotherhood. On Apr. 7, 1868, he was assassinated in Ottawa by a Fenian sympathizer.
(Covers the early explorations of North America, the settl...)
