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Davis is a surname of English and Welsh origin. As an English surname it may be a corruption of Davy or a reference to King David in the Old Testament. As a Welsh surname may be a corruption of Dyfed, related to Irish colonists who occupied an area of southwest Wales in the late third century and established a dynasty there which lasted five centuries.
Thomas Davis was born on 14 October 1814, in Mallow, County Cork, fourth and last child of James Davis, a Welsh surgeon in the Royal Artillery based for many years in Dublin, and an Irish mother. His father died in Exeter a month before his birth, en route to serve in the Peninsular War . [ 1 ]
Davis McCaughey (1914–2005), Irish-Australian theologian; Davis McCombs (born 1969), American poet; Davis Mell (1604–1662), English clockmaker; Davis Mensah (born 1991), Ghanaian-Italian footballer; Davis Miller, American author; Davis Mills (born 1998), American football player; Davis Murwendo (born 1998), Zimbabwean cricketer
Emma Davis (born 1983), Irish triathlete; Emma Lu Davis (1905–1988), American sculptor; Enoch Douglas Davis (1908–1995), American writer; Eoin Davis (born 2000), Irish hurler; Erik Davis (born 1967), American writer; Erik Davis (baseball) (born 1986), American baseball player; Erin Davis (born 1962), Canadian radio personality
Davies is a patronymic Welsh surname meaning "son of David". It is the second most common surname in Wales, a rank it shares with "Williams", and the eighth most common surname in England, where many people have Welsh ancestry. [2]
During the "Irish revival", some Irish names which had fallen out of use were revived. Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names Saoirse "freedom" and Aisling "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen from Caitlín and Shaun from Seán.
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"A Nation Once Again" is a song written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845). Davis was a founder of Young Ireland, an Irish movement whose aim was for Ireland to gain independence from Britain. Davis believed that songs could have a strong emotional impact on people. He wrote that "a song is worth a thousand harangues".