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D'Arcy McGee was married to Mary Theresa Caffrey in Ireland on July 13, 1847. The couple had five daughters - Martha Dorcas, Euphrasia (Fasa), Rose, Agnes (Peggy), a fifth (name unknown), and one son, Thomas Patrick Bede. Only Agnes and Euphrasia outlived their father. Thomas D'Arcy McGee was assassinated April 7, 1868.
Thomas D’Arcy McGee is, without doubt, Carlingford’s most famous son. A rebel in 1848, he would become a liberal-conservative Father of Canadian Confederation in 1867; the following year, he was assassinated by a Fenian who believed that he had betrayed the cause of Ireland.
D'Arcy McGee was given a state funeral in Ottawa. He married (13 July 1847) Mary Theresa Caffrey; they had five daughters and one son. On McGee's death his widow and two surviving daughters were granted a pension from the Canadian government. The poems of Thomas D'Arcy McGee (ed. Mrs James Sadlier) was published in New York in 1869.
McGee, Thomas D'Arcy, statesman, was born at Carlingford, 13th April 1825.His mother was the daughter of a Dublin bookseller (Mr. Morgan) who participated in the Insurrection of 1798; and all the men both of his father's and his mother's families were United Irishmen, except his father, who was in the coast guard service.
The Thomas D’Arcy McGee Foundation aims to highlight the story of McGee’s life, and the relevance of his ideas to our own world. The annual summer school in his name has provided scope for discussion and debate on sensitive issues in Ireland, such as the Great Famine, Revolutionary Republicanism, Orangeism and Fenianism, and is but one vehicle fostering greater mutual understanding and ...
16 de ago. de 2023 · Thomas D’Arcy McGee was born in County Louth but grew up in Antrim and Wexford, where he was schooled in the memory of the 1798 rebellion, before emigrating to America. When he was eight years old, his father was transferred to Wexford, but tragedy was to strike when his mother was killed on 22 nd August 1833, in an accident during their move to their new home.
Thomas D’Arcy McGee was the most powerful political orator of his era. As a young man in Ireland, he fought the British and opposed the Catholic Church. Years later, as a journalist and politician in Canada, he hotly defended the interests of the immigrant Irish. In maturity, McGee turned from rebellion to conservatism. He returned to the Church.
