Zone du titre et de la mention de responsabilité
Titre propre
Thomas D'Arcy McGee collection
Dénomination générale des documents
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Niveau de description
Collection
Cote
RC0710
Zone de l'édition
Mention d'édition
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Mention d'échelle (architecturale)
Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)
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Date(s)
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1858-1925 (Production)
Zone de description matérielle
Description matérielle
4 cm of textual records
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Titre propre de la collection
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Compléments du titre de la collection
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Note sur la collection
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Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, journalist, politician, and poet, was born on 13 April 1825 in Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland. He left for New England for the first time in 1842. It was not until 1857, after a return to Ireland and a further sojourn in the United States, that he moved to Montreal. In December 1857 he was elected to represent Montreal in the Legislative Assembly. By 1867 the Irish Republican Brotherhood, more popularly known as the Fenians, were on the rise. McGee opposed them because of their support of republicans and their plans to invade British North America. McGee lost his support in the Irish community and was on the verge of withdrawing from politics when he was assassinated in Ottawa on 7 April 1868. An Irish immigrant, Patrick James Whelan, was convicted of the crime and executed on 11 February 1869. In addition to his journalism and speeches, McGee wrote A Popular History of Ireland (1863), which is considered to be his best work, and poetry which was collected and published after his death.
Historique de la conservation
Portée et contenu
The collection consists of 23 letters from McGee to John O'Donohoe (1824-1902), a senator.The McGee collection also contains the research materials of J. Alexander Wallace, M.P., who wrote a Master's thesis on McGee at McMaster University in 1916. The materials include: correspondence, interview notes with John M. McGee, half-brother of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, typed copy of a letter from McGee to A. M. Sullivan, editor, Nation, Dublin, 25 June 1866, and research notes concerning McGee and Whelan. (Note: There are letters from O'Donohoe in the Patrick Francis Cronin collection.)
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État de conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Collection was donated by John Wallace in 1978.
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Disponibilité d'autres formats
Restrictions d'accès
There are no access restrictions.
Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication
Instruments de recherche
Éléments associés
Accroissements
Further accruals are not expected.
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Numéro normalisé
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
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Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle
Identifiant de la description du document
RC0710