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
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Young Ireland was a political and cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform. Grouped around the Dublin weekly The Nation, it took issue
Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)
…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. While embracing the common cause of a representative, national government for Ireland, Davis took issue with the nationalist leader Daniel…
Charles Gavan Duffy
Thomas Francis Meagher
Depiction in Punch (1846) of the split: "Young Ireland in Business for Himself", Smith O'Brien in Repeal cap sells weapons to a stereotyped Irishman.