MC GEE

Thomas D’Arcy (2 son of James Mc Gee a coastguard man). b. Carling ford, co. Louth 13 April 1825; went to Providence, Rhode Island 1842; a clerk in office of the Boston Pilot at Boston, June 1842, editor of the paper 1844; editor of Freeman’s Journal, Dublin 1845; a istant editor of The Nation; London correspondent of The Nation newspaper, to which he sent poems signed Montan us, Amergin, Feargail, Sars field, An Irish exile, Gilla Eirin, Gilla Patrick, and M.; secretary to the committee of the Irish Confederation, arrested, soon released; sent on secret mi ion to Scotland 1848; escaped to America disguised as a priest after the rout of his party Oct. 1848; started the New York Nation in New York 26 Oct. 1848; started The American Celt at Boston 1850 which he removed first to Buffalo and then to New York, sold his paper and settled in Montreal 1857, where he started The New Era 1857; member for Montreal in legislative a embly 1858, pres. of the council 1862 and 1864–7; presented with a handsome residence in Montreal 1865; member for Montreal West in the Dominion parliament 6 Nov. 1867; minister of agriculture and emigration 1867; author of Historical sketches of O’Connell and his friends. Boston. 3 ed. 1845; Gallery of Irish writers 1846; A memoir of Art Mac Murrogh, king of Leinster 1847; A history of the Irish settlers in North America 1852; A life of Edward Maginn, bishop of Derry 1857; Canadian ballads 1858; A popular history of Ireland 2 vols. 1865; shot by a Fenian outside his residence in Ottawa 7 April 1868. The poems of T. D. Mc Gee (1869) memoir pp. 15–40, portrait ; C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish songwriters (1885) 103–6; I.L.N. lii 437, 457 (1868), portrait .