Young Ireland

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

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After that, Jordan Larmour scored a hat-trick and a young Ireland team scored 40 second-half points to beat Italy 54-7.

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The son of a wealthy Irish Catholic merchant and constitutional nationalist, he became a leading figure in the Young Ireland movement of the mid-1840s — a brilliant orator who was popularly known as “Meagher of the Sword” for a speech he gave on the theoretical justification of armed force against British rule.

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After the failure of the Young Ireland uprising that summer, he was arrested and found guilty of treason; his death sentence was subsequently commuted, and he was sent to Tasmania, also known as Van Diemen’s Land, for life.

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Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP Jamie Heaslip has expressed his pride at the determination of his young Ireland team-mates to keep Fiji scoreless on Saturday.

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