The Nation

…patriot, McGee was associated with The Nation (1846–48), the literary organ of the Young Ireland political movement (which called for the study of Irish history and the revival of the Irish language). He was implicated in the abortive Irish rebellion of 1848 and fled to the United States, where he…

… 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 imprisoned until 1849. In 1852 he was elected…

…patriotic organization Young Ireland founded The Nation, a paper that published the works of Thomas Osborne Davis, a master of prose and verse, and of such poets as Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Richard D’Alton Williams, and Speranza (the pseudonym of Lady Wilde, mother of poet, novelist, and dramatist Oscar Wilde). The…

… movement coalesced around a newspaper, The Nation, which began publication in 1842 and provided the growing movement for the repeal of the Act of Union with a vital cultural and political outlet. Among its founders were the young Roman Catholic journalist Charles Gavan Duffy and Thomas Osborne Davis, a Protestant…