Thomas Osborne Davis was an Irish writer; with Charles Gavan Duffy and John Blake Dillon, a founding editor of The Nation, the weekly organ of what came to be known as the Young Ireland movement. Whil
Davis in the 1840s
Dame Street - Thomas Davis
Statue in Mallow
Daniel O'Connell
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Daniel O'Connell, hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilisation of Catholic Ir
Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)
…Ireland movement. While embracing the common cause of a representative, national government for Ireland, Davis took issue with the nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell by arguing for the common ("mixed") education of Catholics and Protestants and by advocating for Irish as the national language Thomas Davis was born…
1834 portrait of O'Connell by George Hayter
Catholic Emancipation as a world upside down: held aloft, Daniel O'Connell promises wigs – symbol of Ascendancy rank and property – for "ye all." (Isaac Cruikshank 1789–1856)
The Repealer Repulsed, Belfast 1841
O'Connell's "chariot", now on display in Derrynane House