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El Proyecto Macnamara: The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846

El Proyecto Macnamara: The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846


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This is the story of Eugene Macnamara, a maverick young priest from Ennis, County Clare who sought to establish a colony for Irish families in the 1840s in Alta California, Mexico's far north-western territory. Had the 10,000 ready volunteers from Limerick, Clare and Cork of whom he boasted, actually arrived, a New Ennis , New Clare or New Ireland could have been born. His scheme failed when the US seized California in 1846. Macnamara life spanned half the globe and was dramatic: expulsion from a Paris seminary, a dash to Rome from Guiana to expose a convulsing mission, a year in revolutionary Mexico, two months in threatened California (backed by the Royal Navy) and asylum in Mexico City during the Mexican War, 1846-8. He followed it all with a Macnamara Scheme II in Chile. His arrival in Mexico, 1844, was at a time of tension between North America's landlords, Mexico, the US and Britain. His 1846 licence to settle 20,000 square miles with 15,000 settlers, was formalised by Mexico in 1847 and even qualified for a US hearing in 1852, but it was not appealed. British diplomats, merchants and bondholders supported him. When US President Polk learned of El Proyecto Macnamara he acted immediately to stop any British colonising in North America. In Washington, Macnamara personified at the highest levels a political and commercial conspiracy between Britain and Mexico against the US. This biography is the compelling story of this international Irishman and his lingering aftermath.

About the Author :
John Fox is the author of  Forgotten Divisions: The First World War from Both Sides of No Man’s Land  (Sigma 1994), examining a Rhineland and a Lancashire community 1914-19. Recently he wrote The King’s Smuggler: Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I (THP  2010), the first biography of this British Civil War heroine.

Review :
McNamara's tale of an Irishman's optimism swamped by the forces of international politics (and capitalism) grants a compelling insight into what it meant to be an Irishman in the 19th century. It proffers an insight into the complexities of the Irish identity during this period.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781908928733
  • Publisher: Merrion Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Merrion Press
  • Height: 233 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Width: 157 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1908928735
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jun 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846


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