# Thomas D’Arcy Mcgee
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Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Grace Hughes McGee (13 April 1825 – 7 April 1868) was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was a Catholic Irishman who opposed British rule of Ireland, and worked for a peasant revolution to overthrow British rule and secure Irish independence. He escaped arrest and fled to the United States in 1848, where he reversed his political beliefs.
Canada to Ireland: Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism, 1788-1900
Canada to Ireland explores the poetry and prose of twelve Irish writers and nationalists in Canada between 1788 and 1900, including Thomas Moore, Adam Kidd, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, James McCarroll, Nicholas Flood Davin, and Isabella Valancy Crawford. Many of these writers were …
Thomas Darcy McGee
He was a Father of Confederation, who fought for religious minority rights, and is often referred to as Canada's First Nationalist. He is also, sadly, the first Canadian politician to be assassinated, resulting in a trial that was far from fair for the man accused of the crime.
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Thomas D’Arcy McGee: Canada’s Greatest Catholic Statesman? ~ David Wilson
In this episode, we turn attention to one of the greatest statesmen in Canadian history.Thomas D’Arcy McGee was a father of Canadian confederation, a champion of minority rights, and the principal architect of the unique constitutional protections afforded to Catholic schools in Canadian provinces …
Thomas D'Arcy McGee Summer School 2023
In the 12th annual Thomas D’Arcy McGee Summer School we want to turn the focus future-side and look to the issues which will fundamentally shape the next twenty-five years of the GFA across this shared island. In his day, D’Arcy McGee provided leadership, not by dwelling on past/ongoing divisions b…
D'Arcy McGee Summer School 2023
In the 12th annual Thomas D’Arcy McGee Summer School we want to turn the focus future-side and look to the issues which will fundamentally shape the next twenty-five years of the GFA across this shared island. In his day, D’Arcy McGee provided leadership, not by dwelling on past/ongoing divisions b…
David Livingstone: The Constitutionalism of Thomas D’Arcy McGee
In this special episode of Runnymede Radio, our Thompson Rivers University chapter president Trevor Ballantyne sits down with Professor David Livingstone, the chair of Vancouver Island University's Liberal Studies Department for a discussion of civic nationalism in Canada and the constitutionalism …
Michael Doyle, Second-generation Irish-Canadian
Today, I’ll be chatting with Michael Doyle. I first came to know Michael when his daughter Madeleine was selected as the winner of the inaugural Irish Heritage Awards for her artwork depicting Thomas D’arcy McGee and the expectations of Irish emigrants to Canada. Michael was born in Toronto to two…
Climate Justice at D'Arcy McGee Summer School - Declan Owens EcoJustice Ireland
This year marks the bicentennial of Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s birth, and the theme could not be more timely: "Climate Justice and Human Rights... in a Changing World Order"Declan Owens - Eco Justice Ireland Ecojustice Ireland is a Community Interest Company, the purpose of which is to help combine the …
thePodcast: Canada’s ugly, early political violence: the assassination of Thomas D’Arcy McGee
For the week of Sept. 21, 2025:
Is Canada immune from the political violence in the United States that claimed the lives of Melissa Hortman and Charlie Kirk?
History says the answer is: no.
On this edition of thePodcast, Bob Mackin’s guest is University of Toronto history professor David A. Wi…
David Wilson on The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
What happens when a national biography doesn’t just celebrate—or condemn, but strives to understand? In this episode, I sit down with historian David A. Wilson to explore how the DCB is rethinking who gets included, how language is updated without “rewriting” the past, and why a birdseed magnate—Ja…
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