The Irishman in Canada
Author | : Nicholas Flood Davin |
Publisher | : London : S. Low, Marston ; Toronto : Maclear |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Art, Canadian |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nicholas Flood Davin |
Publisher | : London : S. Low, Marston ; Toronto : Maclear |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Art, Canadian |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher Klein |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385542615 |
"Christopher Klein's fresh telling of this story is an important landmark in both Irish and American history." —James M. McPherson Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured. By the time that these invasions--known collectively as the Fenian raids--began in 1866, Ireland had been Britain's unwilling colony for seven hundred years. Thousands of Civil War veterans who had fled to the United States rather than perish in the wake of the Great Hunger still considered themselves Irishmen first, Americans second. With the tacit support of the U.S. government and inspired by a previous generation of successful American revolutionaries, the group that carried out a series of five attacks on Canada--the Fenian Brotherhood--established a state in exile, planned prison breaks, weathered infighting, stockpiled weapons, and assassinated enemies. Defiantly, this motley group, including a one-armed war hero, an English spy infiltrating rebel forces, and a radical who staged his own funeral, managed to seize a piece of Canada--if only for three days. When the Irish Invaded Canada is the untold tale of a band of fiercely patriotic Irish Americans and their chapter in Ireland's centuries-long fight for independence. Inspiring, lively, and often undeniably comic, this is a story of fighting for what's right in the face of impossible odds.
Author | : David A. Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Margaret E. Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : P.D. Meany |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicholas Flood Davin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John George Hodgins |
Publisher | : Lovell |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Irish |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert O'Driscoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert John Grace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ken McGoogan |
Publisher | : Patrick Crean Editions |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781443425506 |
With Celtic Lightning, bestselling author Ken McGoogan plunges into the perpetual debate about Canadian roots and identity: Who do we think we are? He argues that Canadians have never investigated the demographic reality that informs this book—the fact that more than nine million Canadians claim Scottish or Irish heritage. Did the ancestors of more than one quarter of our population arrive without cultural baggage? No history, no values, no vision? Impossible. McGoogan writes that, to understand who we are and where we are going, Canadians must look to cultural genealogy. He builds on the work of Richard Dawkins, who contends that ideas and values (“memes”) can be transmitted from one generation to another. Scottish and Irish immigrants arrived in Canada with values they had learned from their forebears. And they did so early enough, and in sufficient numbers, to shape an emerging Canadian nation. McGoogan highlights five of the values they imported as foundational: independence, audacity, democracy, pluralism and perseverance. He shows that these values are thriving in contemporary Canada, and traces their evolution through the lives of thirty prominent individuals—heroes, rebels, poets, inventors, pirate queens—who played formative roles in the histories of Scotland and Ireland. Two charged traditions came together and gave rise to a Canadian nation. That is when Celtic lightning struck.