Abstract
This essay looks at McGee's speeches and writings as a journalist and a poet during the Young Ireland movement, in order to understand his transformation from a rebel to a supporter of the Crown. McGee had become convinced that Irish emancipation could be best accomplished by British parliamentary procedure rather than the vagaries of the U.S. populism that encouraged Fenian revolt. His predilection for parliamentary reform, rather than rebellion, had its beginnings with his involvement with the Young Ireland movement twenty years earlier. McGee the rebel has a profound impact on McGee as a Canadian politician twenty years later.
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