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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2022

It has been the destiny of Young Ireland to make and to administer the laws of other countries than that for which its hot youth hoped to legislate.

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

An Irishman by birth, M'Gee in early life attached himself to the Young Ireland party.

From The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion by Pope, Joseph, Sir

I have said that the seed sown by O'Connell and Young Ireland took root, so did the seed sown by England.

From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.

Someone at the Young Ireland Society gave me a newspaper that I might read some article or letter.

From Reveries over Childhood and Youth by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

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