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Showing posts with label McGee (D'Arcy). Show all posts
Showing posts with label McGee (D'Arcy). Show all posts
07 April 2018

Thomas D'Arcy McGee: 150 Years

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He has gone from us, and it will be long ere we find such a happy mixture of eloquence and wisdom, wit and earnestness. His was no arti...
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07 April 2017

'Mort de Thomas D'Arcy McGee'

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from La Voix d'un exile: première et seconde année Louis Fréchette 1868 Related posts: 'O Martyr'd McGee!'...
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07 April 2016

A Poet's Angry Word With the Fenian Botherhood

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Angry verse on this 148th anniversary of Thomas D'Arcy McGee's assassination found in Evan MacColl's Poems and Songs (Toron...
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01 February 2016

McGee's Lines on a Once Famous Festival Day

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Verse written by son of Erin and Father of Confederation Thomas D'Arcy McGee in celebration of Saint Bridget of Kildare (a/k/a Sai...
08 April 2015

Collard's Cock-up (and a curious coincidence)

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Edgar Andrew Collard seems to have been a pretty interesting fellow. A Montrealer armed with a M.A. in history from McGill, in 1942 he f...
07 April 2015

'Erin's Address to the Hon. Thomas D'Arcy McGee'

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Verse on the 147th anniversary of the assassination of the great D'Arcy McGee. "Erin's Address to the Hon. Thomas D'Ar...
07 April 2014

Remembering Edith Eaton and D'Arcy McGee

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It's become something of a tradition here to acknowledge Thomas D'Arcy McGee on this day, the anniversary of his assassinatio...
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02 July 2013

Of Old Books and (possibly) Mummy Paper

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Delightfully charming, unconventionally sentimental schoolgirl verse from Ethel Ursula Foran , whose "New Year's Day" h...
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07 April 2013

'IN MEMORIAM! The Hon. T.D. McGee'

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IN MEMORIAM! The Hon. T.D. McGee Dedicated to his sorrowing Widow "Cum lugeate, lugebo."                  ...
17 March 2013

Thomas D'Arcy McGee's 'Home-sick Stanzas'

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee 13 April 1825 - 7 April 1868 RIP from Selections from Canadian Poets Edward Hartley Dewart, editor ...
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07 April 2012

'Death of D'Arcy McGee'

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McGee Mausoleum Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Montreal A poem on the death of  Thomas D'Arcy McGee , assassinated 144 ye...
07 April 2011

'O martyr'd McGee!'

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee 13 April 1825 - 7 April 1868 A stray tribute "from the pen of an accomplished Catholic priest of Pen...
17 March 2011

D'Arcy McGee's Query (with a response)

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The Poems of Thomas D'Arcy McGee Montreal: D & J Sadlier, 1870 A response from 'Thomasine' (Miss Olivia Knight), ...
29 April 2010

James McIntyre's Fair Thames

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The end of National Poetry Month approaches, and with it the stragglers in the parade of things McIntyre. I suppose he'll always be ...
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