Academic Speaker Event: Irish Americans and Imperial Violence, ca. 1900
Organizer: Undergraduate Society of American Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
In 1900, a secret cabal of Irish and Dutch San Franciscans conspired to bomb a Royal Navy base in British Columbia. Their plans were thwarted by a mysterious informant codenamed “Agent X”. Who were these plotters? What did they have against Canada? Who was Agent X? And what can this affair tell us about how […]