Young Ireland
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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
Charles Gavan Duffy
Thomas Davis
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.
Thomas Francis Meagher
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Thomas Francis Meagher was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. After being convicted of sedition, he was first sentenced to death but received transportat
Young Ireland
…Thomas Devin Reilly; former American journalist (and future "Father of the Canadian Confederation") Thomas D'Arcy McGee; and the renowned Repeal orator Thomas Francis Meagher. It was an English journalist who first applied to this growing circle the label "Young Ireland". Although there was no direct connection, the reference…
Meagher (1860s) in his formal military uniform
Portrait of Meagher c. 1845
Trial at Clonmel of Meagher, Terence MacManus, and Patrick O'Donoghue, all sentenced to death
Plaque commemorating Meagher's arrest at 19 The Mall, Waterford, 12 July 1848