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The Politics of Irish Literature: from Thomas Davis to W.B. Yeats, Malcolm Brown, Allen & Unwin, 1973. Young Ireland and 1848, Dennis Gwynn, Cork University Press 1949. Daniel O'Connell The Irish Liberator, Dennis Gwynn, Hutchinson & Co, Ltd. The Fenians in Context Irish Politics & Society 1848–82, R. V. Comerford, Wolfhound Press 1998
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Events from the year 1840 in Ireland. Events. 10 January ... Arts and literature
October 23 – Mary Mathews Adams, Irish-born American writer and philanthropist (died 1902) November 8 – Esther E. Baldwin, American missionary and writer (died 1910) November 29 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh novelist and short-story writer (died 1920) [16] December 28 – Ioan Kalinderu, Romanian classical scholar, jurist and agriculturalist ...
Through the 1830s and 1840s the chief ideologist of the magazine was Mortimer O'Sullivan, a Grand Chaplain of the Orange Order in Ireland, a role he shared with his brother Samuel. [4] Editors during the 1840s and 1850s were James Wills, Charles Lever and John Francis Waller, all of whom also contributed articles.
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]
In 2010, author Martin Mallone wrote the novel The Only Glow of the Day about life on the Curragh. [20] Likewise, Rose Doyle wrote the novel Friends Indeed in 2011. [21] In 2018, novelist Orla McAlinden published The Flight of the Wren, which re-imagined the lives of the women. [22]
Gerald Griffin (1803–1840) was born in Limerick but spent time in England. On returning to Ireland he wrote The Collegians, on which his reputation rests. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was born in Dublin and lived there for most of his life. He was noted for his mystery novels and Gothic fiction (some of which is based on Irish folklore).
The legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland (Irish: An Gorta Mór [1] or An Drochshaol, litt: The Bad Life) followed a catastrophic period of Irish history between 1845 and 1852 [2] during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 50 percent. [3] The Great Famine (1845–1849) was a watershed in the history of Ireland. [4]