#OTD in 1846 – O’Connell and the Young Irelanders party split over use of physical force.

28/07/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

The name Young Ireland was originally used in a disparaging way to describe the group of young Repeal Association members who were associated with The Nation newspaper. At the time, the Repeal Association was campaigning for the repeal of the Act of Union 1800 between the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. The term was […]

#OTD in 1872 – John Mitchel returns to Ireland from America.

25/07/2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

John Mitchel was born at Camnish, near Dungiven, Co Derry. The Irish nationalist, writer for The Nation and founder of The United Irishman newspaper openly preached rebellion against England. Convicted of treason in 1848, Mitchel was sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). In 1853, he escaped to America, where he published […]

#OTD in 1845 – Death of revolutionary and writer, Thomas Osborne Davis, in Dublin.

16/09/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Thomas Osborne Davis was an Irish writer who was the chief organiser of the Young Ireland movement. Thomas Davis was born in the town of Mallow, Co Cork, the son of a Welsh father, a surgeon in the Royal Artillery, and an Irish mother. Through his mother he was descended from the Gaelic noble family […]

#OTD in 1846 – O’Connell and the Young Irelanders party split over use of physical force.

28/07/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1872 – John Mitchel returns to Ireland from America.

25/07/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

#OTD in 1845 – Death of revolutionary and writer, Thomas Osborne Davis, in Dublin.

16/09/2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

#OTD in 1846 – O’Connell and the Young Irelanders party split over use of physical force.

28/07/2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in 1903 – Death of the first editor and proprietor of The Nation newspaper, Charles Gavan Duffy, in Nice, France.

09/02/2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

Charles Gavan Duffy was born in Monaghan Town on the 12 April 1816. The son of a Catholic shopkeeper, his parents died when he was very young and he was raised by his uncle, Fr James Duffy, the Parish Priest of Castleblayney. Duffy was educated at St Malachy’s college in Belfast and was admitted to […]

#OTD in 1845 – Death of revolutionary and writer, Thomas Osborne Davis, in Dublin.

16/09/2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

#OTD in 1846 – O’Connell and the Young Irelanders party split over use of physical force.

28/07/2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

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