Ireland young person

The movement Jeune Ireland ( Young Ireland ) is a revolutionary and nationalist movement Irish which was active in the middle of the 19th century.

History

Jeune Ireland developed around the weekly magazine “The Nation” which called with the restoration of an Irish government by the abrogation of the Acte of Union. The review was created by Charles Gavan Duffy a young catholic journalist and Thomas Davis a graduate Protestant of Trinity College. They were placed in the line line of Daniel O' Connell and its Repeal Association in its request for abrogation but in same time passed in addition to its refusal of the use of violence and its confidence in the Catholic church.

Their desire of rebellion was exacerbated by the despair caused by the Grande famine in Ireland and by the nationalist alarm clock caused by the revolutionary contagion which invades the Europe following the revolution of 1848 in France. In front of the more intransigent positions of the movement Young Ireland, O' Connell makes the decision in 1845 to exclude them from its association.

The rising of 1848

William Smith O' Brien, the leader of Ireland Young person, organized an attempt at rebellion in July 1848. Unfortunately for the rebels, they succeeded in gathering only fifty people and thus failed lamentably. This rebellion was baptized in way mocker " The Battle off widow McCormack' S cabbage patch".

The participants in the revolt immediately were stopped and for the majority off-set in Australia.

The movement Jeune Ireland will durably mark the Irish nationalist movement while trying to justify the recourse to violence and while revealing one of the essential symbols of the future Irish republicans: the Tricolor. Its values will be taken again later by the movement Fenian, or the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

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