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

I think indeed I first learned to hope for them myself in Young Ireland Societies, or in reading the essays of Davis.

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

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

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

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

Young Ireland, however, seemed determined to kick over the traces at the very time when the Liberator was inducing the Whigs to look at the question in a practical manner.

From Lord John Russell by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)