Mysteries of Canada Stories by Region Stories by Author WHAT'S NEW Idea Centre Investigators Submit a Story Home Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canada's First Political Assassination by Bruce Ricketts Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an editor, politician, and poet, born at Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland, 13 April, 1825 and assassinated at Ottawa, Canada, 7 April, 1868. A precocious youth in Ireland, he ...

Tell me when this page is updated Resources The Untold Story Books Irish History by Province New Brunswick Newfoundland Nova Scotia Quebec Ontario Home Irish-Canadian Leaders in History Thomas D'Arcy McGee Timothy Warren Anglin Thomas D'Arcy McGee: Irish Founder of the Canadian Nation by William G. Davis Thomas D'Arcy McGee possessed many of the qualities traditionally associated with the Irish ...

Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868) Text from The Poems of Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1869) (canadiana.org). Home Sonnets--Address to Ireland (4 sonnets) Sonnet Return Home Sonnets--Address to Ireland I Mother of soldiers! once there was a time When your sons' swords won fame in many a clime; When Europe press'd on France, they fought alone For her, and served her better than their own! Those were the ...

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