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DETAILS AND REGISTRATION:
Join David A. Wilson for an in-person book launch of Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police.
Organized by the University of St Michael's College Celtic Studies Program.
The book launch will be held at:
Charbonnel Lounge,
81 St Mary Street,
Toronto ON M5S 1J4
Light food and refreshments will be served.
To RSVP please email: usmc.principalsoffice@utoronto.ca
David A. Wilson is professor of Celtic Studies and history at the University of Toronto, the author of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, volumes 1 and 2, the editor of Irish Nationalism in Canada, and the General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
In Canadian Spy Story David Wilson takes readers into a dark and dangerous world of betrayal and deception, spies and informers, invasion and assassination, spanning Canada, the United States, Ireland, and Britain. In Canada there were Fenian secret societies in urban areas, including Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, and in some rural townships, all part of a wider North American network. Wilson tells the tale of Irishmen who attempted to liberate their country from British rule, and the Canadian secret police who infiltrated their revolutionary cells and worked their way to the top of the organization. With surprises at every turn, the story includes a sex scandal that nearly brought Canadian spy operations crashing down, as well as reports from Toronto about a plot to assassinate Queen Victoria.