O’SULLIVAN, T.F. The Young Irelanders.

Illustrated. Tralee: Kerryman, 1945. Crown octavo. pp. xvi, 686. Quarter green cloth on green papered boards. A very good copy in a very good and rare repaired dust jacket.
Young Ireland was a political, cultural and social movement of the mid-19th century. It began as a tendency within Daniel O’Connell’s Repeal Association, associated with The Nation newspaper, but eventually split to found the Irish Confederation in 1847. Young Ireland led changes in Irish nationalism, including an abortive rebellion known as the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848. Many of the rebellion’s leaders were tried for sedition and sentenced to penal transportation to Van Diemen’s Land. From its beginnings in the late 1830s, Young Ireland grew in influence and inspired following generations of Irish nationalists. Some of the junior members of the movement went on to found the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Among the members of this new society were Charles Gavan Duffy; Jane Wilde; Margaret Callan; John Mitchel; Thomas Francis Meagher; William Smith O’Brien; John Blake Dillon, Thomas MacNevin, William Eliot Hudson and Thomas Davis, who was elected its president in 1840.

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