Single sheet, printed on one side in three columns. 47.5x20 cm. (18¾x7¾").

Rare broadside reporting the brief invasion of Canada by Irish patriots in the United States. In 1866, forces of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, shortly to become the Irish Republican Army, assembled on the border between the United States and Canada. Their aim was to capture territory in Canada for an Irish homeland, or alternatively to use any gains as a bargaining tool in negotiations with the English for Irish independence. The broadside reports "The Whole Province Aroused!... Active Preparations to Drive back the Freebooters, " with hopes that "the 'Bloody Finnegans' would come and be prepared to fight ant not keep cowardly threatening and doing nothing..." The invasion failed, but the British used the hysteria raised by the invasion to push through legislation causing the separate provinces of New Brunswick, Canada and Nova Scotia to be united as a single British Dominion, reinforcing its colonial grip. No copies of this broadside are listed in OCLC/WorldCat.