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Thomas Osborne Davis (14 October 1814 – 16 September 1845) 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 ...
Davis, Thomas Osborne (1814–45), Young Irelander, poet, and journalist, was born 14 October 1814 at Mallow, Co. Cork, youngest of three sons and one daughter of James Thomas Davis, military surgeon, and his wife Mary (née Atkins). Family and education James Davis's family were of Welsh origin but considered themselves totally English.
Thomas Osborne Davis (born Oct. 14, 1814, Mallow, County Cork, Ire.—died Sept. 16, 1845, Dublin) was an Irish writer and politician who was the chief organizer and poet of the Young Ireland movement. A Protestant who resented the traditional identification of Irish nationalism with Roman Catholic interests, he evolved, while at Trinity ...
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Thomas Davis, the composer of many ballads such as The Wests Awake and A Nation Once Again, died on September 16, 1845. The Young Irelander was just 30-years-old.
Young Ireland ( Irish: Éire Óg, IPA: [ˈeːɾʲə ˈoːɡ]) was a political and cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform.
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Feb 16, 2011 · The movement attracted the attention of a group of young, university-educated Irish nationalists. Three of them, Thomas Davis, Gavan Duffy, and John Blake Dillon, founded a nationalist newspaper called The Nation in 1842. Week after week the paper espoused the views of this eclectic group of Catholic and Protestant activists.
Thomas Osborne Davis (1814-1845) Thomas Davis, born at Mallow, County Cork, on 24 October 1814, is widely regarded as the true leader of the Young Irelanders. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1836. Although called to the bar in 1838, he did not practise law but was drawn to journalism.
