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Born October 14, 1814 • Ireland
Died September 16, 1845 (aged 30) • Dublin • Ireland
Founder “The Nation”
Notable Works “The Nation”
Movement / Style Gaelic revival

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Thomas Osborne Davis, detail of an engraving
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Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
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Sir John Davies
British poet
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
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Sean O’Faolain
Irish author
William Smith O'Brien, lithograph by H. O'Neill after a daguerreotype by Glukman, 1848
William Smith O’Brien
Irish patriot
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
Irish politician
Thomas Parnell, detail of an engraving
Thomas Parnell
Irish author
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Roger Boyle, 1st earl of Orrery
Irish magnate and author
Colum, Padraic
Padraic Colum
Irish-born American poet
Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Moore
Irish author and composer
Mangan, James Clarence
James Clarence Mangan
Irish writer
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Leigh Hunt, detail of a watercolour and gouache on ivory by Margaret Gillies, 1838–46; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Leigh Hunt
British author
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Ziya Gökalp
Turkish author
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William Henry O’Shea
Irish nationalist

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