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IrishNewspapers: The death of the Young Irelander Charles Gavan Duffy reported on this day in 1903 For more read:

AnChartlann: Charles Gavan Duffy: "We do not seek to make idlers and talkers: men must grow better by joining us. But learn to love the cause with all your soul, and it will be your recreation at every leisure hour to help it. Be up early to give it an hour..."

SaveGavanDuffy: Do you support the plans by Monaghan

katheder: Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (in 'League of North & South', 1886) being astute on the nature of democratic politics. Most modern British liberals and centrists are parliamentary constitutionalists, a very different thing.

railmaps: Today's historic pic: Streamlined S class VLine diesel locos: S309 (William Lonsdale), S315 (Sir Charles Gavan Duffy) and S307 (John Pascoe Fawkner) await departure with train 8125 bound for Ballarat at Spencer Street station, Melbourne, 35 years ago today, July 12 1987.

AnChartlann: From the infamous resignation letter of MP and leader of Tenant Right, Charles Gavan Duffy, addressed to his constituents of New Ross and published in his paper The Nation. Gavan Duffy would leave Ireland for Australia, utterly despondent at the state of the country.

AnChartlann: "...The ultimate aim for which alone I laboured – to give back to Ireland her national existence – is forgotten or repudiated... There seems to me no more hope for the Irish Cause than for the corpse on the dissecting table."

IrishNewspapers: Report on the death of the 'Last of the Young Irelanders' & Prime Minister of Victoria, Australia- Charles Gavan Duffy who died OTD in 1903. Read here:

AnChartlann: "I have read of a Roman wife who stabbed herself before her husband’s eyes to teach him how to die. These million deaths teach us a grand lesson – To die for Ireland!" - Charles Gavan Duffy, "Jacta Alea Est", the suppressed Nation, 29 July 1848.

AnChartlann: "A new era has commenced in Irish Journalism – the reign of terror. The jailer of Kilmainham is henceforth censor of the Dublin press." - The Creed of "The Nation, Charles Gavan Duffy, from a Confederate Club pamphlet published in May 1848.

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datbassjawn: Charles Schulz: hey can you record something jazzy for my cartoon nothing fancy Vince Guaraldi on A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack:

AnChartlann: and now again the soul which inspired the new generation was suddenly withdrawn." - Charles Gavan Duffy.

ericesheng: Is there a biography of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy the Young Irelander and later premier of Victoria?

Aontaithe2021: In the 1852 General Election, 48 candidates backed by the Tenant Right League were elected, including Charles Gavan Duffy and Frederick Lucas. However only one was elected in Ulster. One difficulty in the north was the campaign to repeal the 1851 Ecclesiastical Titles Act

NewsonNS: Councillors approve 'delisting' of Charles Gavan Duffy's birthplace

NewsonNS: Councillors approve 'delisting' of Charles Gavan Duffy's birthplace

CrawSharman: 'Uses of the Imperial Parliament' - Charles Gavan Duffy is elected to the parliament of Victoria - Melbourne Punch, 4 Dec. 1856

NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to Joseph Lanner (d. 1843), Charles Gavan Duffy (d. 1903), Alexander Ostrovsky (d. 1886), Nikolay Przhevalsky (d. 1888), Gustaf Cederstrom (d. 1933), Jose Gautier Benitez (d. 1880), Edward Walter Maunder (d. 1928) and Ferdinand Von Lindemann (d. 1939).

thepainterflynn: Today in 1816 Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist, is born in Monaghan

OPWKilmainham: By the 1840s Newgate was largely used to house prisoners on remand. These included a number of the leaders of the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848, most notably John Mitchel, Kevin Izod O’Doherty and Charles Gavan Duffy, who were all tried in Green Street Courthouse.

thepainterflynn: Today in 1903 Charles Gavan Duffy, Young Irelander, is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

AnChartlann: Available on Cartlann are some of the poems and lectures of the Young Irelander and co-founder of the Nation newspaper, Charles Gavan Duffy from Monaghan.

thepainterflynn: Today in 1903 Charles Gavan Duffy, the first editor and proprietor of The Nation newspaper, dies in Nice

NewsonNS: Birthplace of Charles Gavan Duffy in Monaghan town could be demolished

NewsonNS: Birthplace of Charles Gavan Duffy in Monaghan town could be demolished

timesportal: NEW PUBLICATIONS; TALKS WITH CARLYLE. CONVERSATIONS WITH CARLYLE. By Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. 12mo. New-York: Im- ported by Charles Scribner's Sons. (07/10/1892)

TenGLeo1: Heaney stood on the political achievements of previous nationalists such as The Hon Sir Charles Gavan Duffy KCMG to write this line. The Right Hon Mr Eastwood should realise that the real Irish history is filled with Sir Charleses rather than play the imp on Heaney's shoulders.

PrincessGraceI2: From Princess Grace’s personal collection: “Histoire d’Irlande à vol d’oiseau” (A Bird’s-eye View of Irish History) by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, translated into French by Marie Wilson Cowley. Published in 1882.

MariaLolaRoche: Interesting, Oscar Wilde’s mother, who is lesser known. Included pro-Irish independence and anti-British writing; & was known as "Speranza of the Nation". Charles Gavan Duffy was the editor when "Speranza" wrote commentary calling for armed revolution in Ireland in The Nation.

ThisDayIrish: This day 178 years ago - 15 October 1842 - the first issue of The Nation was published. Edited by Charles Gavan Duffy, its main stated objective was to achieve “a nationality which may embrace... the Irishman of a hundred generations, and the stranger who is within our gates.”

ThisDayIrish: This day 170 years ago - 9 August 1850 - the Irish Tenant Right League met for the first time in Dublin. Founded by Charles Gavan Duffy and Frederick Lucas, it set out to achieve what it called the three Fs: fair rent, fixity of tenure and freedom of sale.

NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to Joseph Lanner (d. 1843), Charles Gavan Duffy (d. 1903), Alexander Ostrovsky (d. 1886), Nikolay Przhevalsky (d. 1888), Gustaf Cederstrom (d. 1933), Jose Gautier Benitez (d. 1880), Edward Walter Maunder (d. 1928) and Ferdinand Von Lindemann (d. 1939).

thepainterflynn: Today in 1903 Charles Gavan Duffy, Young Irelander, is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

johnmccarron1: When they tell us the tale of a spell-stricken band, All entranced, with their bridles and broad-swords in hand, Who await but the word to give Eirinn her own, They can read you that riddle in proud Inis Eoghain. (Charles Gavan Duffy).

thepainterflynn: Today in 1903 Charles Gavan Duffy, the first editor and proprietor of The Nation newspaper, dies in Nice

OMARC_archive: A (just) catalogued item, now available to researchers, is the Hollybrooke House visitor's book, with signatures of visitors from 1846-60. Notable names include; Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Earl & Countess of Devon, Lord & Lady Clanmorris, Countess of Meath and many more!

karenievers: I should also mention that there are several other interesting images in the Carlyle album including Charles Gavan Duffy in his Napoleon pose.

griptmedia: He was a Protestant, but preached unity between Catholics & Protestants & established The Nation newspaper with Charles Gavan Duffy and others.

GavanCasey: I was almost called Ólan but my Nana was like, ‘What, like, ‘ólann sé cupán tae?’’ and my mum changed her mind immediately. Then was going to be called Gavin but my great-grandmother was like, ‘It has to be with an ‘A-N’, like Charles Gavan Duffy!’ and I think my mum just gave up

kokucenneti: Charles Gavan Duffy (Australian-Irish journalist) Born: Monaghan, Ireland Date of birth: 1816-04-12 Spouse: Louise Hall

ThisDayIrish: This day 127 years ago - 28 December 1891 - the preliminary meeting of the Irish Literary Society was held in Bedfo...

Genealogydotie: The Nation was founded by Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy and John Dillon in 1842. It was a nationalist paper.

thepainterflynn: Today in 1842 the first issue of "The Nation" is published by Charles Gavan Duffy, its first editor, Thomas Davis,...

abigailrieley: I'm researching Charles Gavan Duffy as part of my PhD. He clashed with O'Connell over journalists rights.

abigailrieley: In my post I compared Paul Murphy's use of Twitter with Charles Gavan Duffy's use of the press in 1848. Both used media for political gain.

IrishLitSoc: Happy bday to us: 125 years ago today the Irish Literary Society founded at Caledonian Hotel, The Strand, Charles Gavan Duffy as President

TheRealPolina: -According to Charles Gavan Duffy, The Nation insisted that the one remedy was that which the rest of Europe had adopted,

theNSMonaghan: Monaghan celebrates Sir Charles Gavan Duffy 201! & plans a permanent memorial sculpture & bench (apologies for the...

theNSMonaghan: Monaghan town celebrates Sir Charles Gavan Duffy & plans a permanent memorial sculpture & bench (apologies for the...

NewsonNS: Monaghan to celebrate 201st birthday of Charles Gavan Duffy today.

gerregan: On April 12, 1816, Charles Gavan Duffy was born in County Monaghan. Self-educated as a journalist, Duffy would...

happybdauthors: happy birthday Charles Gavan Duffy! Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and Australian politician

NewsonNS: Monaghan to celebrate 201st birthday of Charles Gavan Duffy today.

Irish_Links: Today's birthday: Charles Gavan Duffy, born 1816 in Monaghan Town



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