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

Irish poetry certainly existed before Young Ireland, and was even considered, like oratory, to be a quality naturally and easily indigenous to the Irish genius.

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

Young Ireland," thus describes the effect produced respectively upon himself and Davis by a first acquaintance with young Thomas D'Arcy McGee: "The young man was not prepossessing.

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

The Young Ireland movement, however, quickened and established a national literature which had an immense effect on subsequent political history in Ireland.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

I think it was a Young Ireland Society that set my mind running on ‘popular poetry.’

From Ideas of Good and Evil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)