Young Ireland

British  

noun

1. a movement or party of Irish patriots in the 1840s who split with Daniel O'Connell because they favoured a more violent policy than that which he promoted

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Example Sentences

An energetic figure like Volodymyr Zelensky, for instance, evokes the 19th-century’s youthful nationalists and nationalisms — the Young Turks, Young Ireland.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2022

After a brief interval he withdrew from his editorial position, and allied himself with the "Young Ireland" Party, as it was called.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles

Young Ireland, the party of force, did not fail to catch the flame.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

A few of Mr. de Vere's ballads have the same effect of "Young Ireland with the chill on."

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

But Lady Wilde, then known if she wrote prose as Mr. John Fanshawe Ellis, and if she wrote verse as Speranza, had an extraordinary influence on all the intellectual and political activities of Young Ireland.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.