Charles Gavan Duffy
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Sir Charles Gavan Duffy KCMG, PC was an Irish poet, politician and journalist, Young Irelander and tenant-rights activist. After emigrating to Australia in 1856 he entered the politics of Victoria on
Duffy in 1880
Charles Gavan Duffy circa 1845
Grave of Charles Gavan Duffy, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
Great Famine (Ireland)
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The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. It constituted a major historical so
Charles Gavan Duffy
…Young Ireland dissidents associated with his paper withdrew and formed themselves as the Irish Confederation. In the desperate circumstances of the Great Famine and in the face of martial-law measures that, following O'Connell's death, a number of Repeal Association MPs had approved in Westminster, Duffy conceded…
Scene at Skibbereen during the Great Famine, The Illustrated London News, 1847
A potato infected with late blight, showing typical rot symptoms
An 1845 painting depicting the forced eviction of Irish tenants during the Famine era
An Irish Peasant Family Discovering the Blight of their Store by Cork artist Daniel MacDonald, c. 1847