All Roads End Here

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Paul Keating, Edmund Burke, Thomas D'arcy Mcgee, Bernardo O'higgins, Dalton Mcguinty, Charles Gavan Duffy, Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duc de Magenta, Chaim Herzog, Thomas Addis Emmet, Leopoldo O'donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan, James Duane, Dónall Cam Ó Súilleabháin Béirre, Irish Military Diaspora, Eamon Bulfin, Robert Barnewall, 12th Baron Trimlestown, Agar Yeilding, George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent, Carlos O'donnell, 2nd Duke of Tetuan, Albert Henry Hime, John Fitzpatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory, Ian Anderson, Richard Fitzwilliam, 5th Viscount Fitzwilliam. Excerpt: Agar Yielding (1813-1873) was born in County Limerick , Ireland , the son of Richard Massy Yeilding, Sr., an estate owner and member of the Gentry in the west of County Limerick. . Some time around 1830, he accompanied his older brother, Richard Massy Yeilding, Jr., by ship to Montreal , Canada . His brother eventually moved to the United States, but Agar stayed in Canada and settled in Bytown . There he acquired land and became a merchant with a business on Rideau Street near the canal . His store is listed as being located in "Lower Town" (a blue-collar , mostly Irish, part of Bytown) on Rideau Street in the 1851 Ottawa directory. The actual location was only about 400 yards (370 m) from the canal, across from which is now the location of Canada's Parliament buildings. In 1854, Agar stood for election to Parliament to represent Bytown. By then Bytown had a population of about 8,000. Agar was nominated to represent his party (Conservative Party or Tory Party) by Nicholas Sparks , a rich and very influential man of the time who it is said made his money by discovering gold on a plot of land he bought for only £60. He was seconded by Alexander Gibb, the then publisher of the Ottawa Citizen . The opposition (Libera...