Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, (probably 27 February 1797 – 29 May 1880) was an Irish doctor, historian and journalist.

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Born in Mallow,

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, he studied medicine in

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and immigrated to

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in 1823 where he became involved in the political reform movement of the

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. He was registered to practice medicine in Lower Canada on 16 October 1827. On the death of Daniel Tracey, owner of the '' Montreal Vindicator'' newspaper, in 1832 O'Callaghan became the editor and brought in

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to work on the paper. They proved to be an irreducible adversary of Lord Gosford and the status quo. In 1834, O'Callaghan was elected to the

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for Yamaska. In office, he was a close supporter of Louis Joseph Papineau. In 1837, during the

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, a mandate of arrest was issued against him, and he sought refuge at Saint-Denis, then crossed the

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border with his friend,

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. Later, O'Callaghan became secretary-archivist of the

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, and died there in 1880.

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* ''Jesuit Relations of Discoveries and Other Occurrences in Canada and the Northern and Western States of the Union, 1632–1672'', New York, 1847 * * ''A list of Editions of the Holy Scriptures, and Parts Thereof, Printed in America Previous to 1860'', Albany, 1861. * ''The Register of New Netherland ; 1626 to 1674'', Albany, 1865.

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* * * John T. Driscoll

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''New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia''
1911 * Maureen Slattery.
Irish Radicalism and the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec and Ireland, 1833–1834: O'Callaghan and O'Connell Compared
, in Canadian Catholic Historical Association, ''Historical Studies'', 63 (1997), pp. 29–58 * Maureen Slattery Durley.

, in Canadian Catholic Historical Association, ''Study Sessions'', 47 (1980), pp. 23–40 * Jack Verney. ''O'Callaghan. The Making and Unmaking of a Rebel'', Montréal: McGill-Queen's Press, 1994, 350 pages
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* Edward W. Nash. ''Catalogue of the Library of the Late E. B. O'Callaghan, M. D., LL. D., Historian of New York'', New York: Douglas Taylor Printer, 1882
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