Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... in Turkey, had done something, and done it nobly, ta stay the desolation and the dissolution that the famine was causing. But the government, if it could not appease the famine, showed itself active in devising Coercion Bills to put down any spirit of violence which misery and starvation might haply have engendered in the Irish people. Such was the condition of the country when O'Connell and the Repeal Movement died together, and when the Young Ireland Movement, with its dream of armed rebellion, came into existence. CHAPTER IX. YOUNG IRELAND.--FENIANISM. The Nation newspaper was first published on the 13th of October, 1842; it was founded byGavan Duffy, John Blake Dillon, and Thomas Davis. Gavan Duffy was the editor, but he says himself, in his history of the movement, that Davis was their true leader. They were all young men; Davis was twenty-eight, Dillon twentyseven, and Duffy twenty-six. Davis, says Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, "was a man of middle stature, strongly but not coarsely built; . . . a broad brow and strong jaw stamped his face with a character of power; but except when it was lighted by thought or feeling, it was plain and even rugged." In his boyhood he was "shy, retiring, unready, and self-absorbed," was even described as a "dull child " by unappreciative kinsfolk. At Trinity College he was a wide and steady reader, who was chiefly noted by his fellow-students for his iniifference to rhetorical display. He was auditor of the Dublin Historical Society, had made some name for himself by his contributions to a magazine called the Citizen, and was a member of the Repeal Associat1on. When Duffy made John Dillon's acquaintance, Dillon was "tall, and strikingly handsome, with eyes like a thoughtful woman's, and the clear olive...
