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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Young Ireland

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.

Colonel Moore recognises rightly the difference between the Fenian organisation and the Young Ireland movement which had preceded it.

From Irish Books and Irish People by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

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)

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.