Thomas D’Arcy McGee

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Thomas D’Arcy McGee, the son of James McGee (coastguard) and Dorcas Catherine Morgan was born in Carlingford, County Louth 13 April 1825. A journalist and poet as well as a politician, McGee was a gifted speaker and (in later life) a strong supporter of confederation in his adopted country of Canada.  His changing views regarding Irish republicanism may have resulted in his assassination in 1868.

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Lord Edward Fitzgerald

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The Yeats poem (opt. cit.) has forever enshrined in verse the name of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.  This Irish conspirator (1763-1798) fifth son of James, first duke of Leinster, by his wife Emilia Mary, daughter of Charles Lennox, second duke of Richmond, was born at Carton House, near Dublin, on the 15th of October 1763.

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