When the Irish Invaded Canada Book Talk

Name: When the Irish Invaded Canada Book Talk
Start: March 3, 2019
End: March 3, 2019
Location: Rev. James T. O’Reilly OSA Division Eight Ancient Order of Hibernians

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Did you know that an Irish-American army attacked Canada after the Civil War?

It’s no blarney.

Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history: to seize the British province of Canada and hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured. Come hear Christopher Klein, author of When the Irish Invaded Canada, tell the outlandish, little-known story of the self-proclaimed Irish Republican Army that with the tacit support of the U.S. government carried out five attacks on Canada—known collectively as the Fenian Raids—between 1866 and 1871.