John Blake Dillon

…in Dublin, Duffy, along with John Blake Dillon and Thomas Davis, founded the Nation (1842), a weekly journal of Irish nationalist opinion. Later he and his two colleagues formed the “Young Ireland” party, which advocated Irish independence. Duffy was seized just before an abortive attempt at insurrection (August 1848) and…

…and its special land correspondent, John Blake Dillon. They became increasingly restless at O’Connell’s cautious policy after Clontarf, however, and in 1848 became involved in an inept rising. Its failure, and the deportation or escape from Ireland of most of the Young Ireland leaders, destroyed the repeal movement.