See also:SIR See also:CHARLES GAVAN See also:DUFFY (1816-1903)
, Irish and colonial politician, was See also:born in See also:Monaghan, See also:Ireland, on the 12th of See also:April 1816
.
At an See also:early See also:age he became connected with the See also:press, and was one of the founders (1842) of the Nation, a See also:Dublin weekly which was remarkable for its See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, for its seditious tendencies, and for the See also:fire and spirit of its See also:political See also:poetry
.
In 1844 See also:Duffy was included in the same See also:indictment with O'Connell, and shared his conviction in Dublin and his acquittal by the See also:House of Lords upon a point of See also:law
.
His ideas, nevertheless, were too revolutionary for O'Connell; a See also:schism took See also:place in 1846, and Duffy See also:united himself to the " See also:Young Ireland " party
.
He was tried for See also:treason-See also:- FELONY (0. Fr. felonie, from felon, a word meaning " wicked," common to Romanic languages, cf. Italian fella, fellone, the ultimate origin of which is obscure, but is possibly connected either with Lat. fel, gall, or fallere, to deceive. The English " fel
felony in 1848, but the See also:jury were unable to agree
.
Duffy continued to agitate in the press and in See also:parliament, to which he was elected in 1852, but his failure to bring about an See also:alliance between Catholics and Protest-ants upon the See also:land question determined him in 1856 to emigrate to See also:Victoria
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There he became ir
.
1857 See also:minister of public See also:works, and after an active political career, in the course of which he was See also:prime minister from 1871 to 1873, when he was knighted, he was elected See also:speaker of the House of See also:Assembly in 1877, being made K.C.M.G. in the same See also:year
.
In 188o he resigned and returned to See also:Europe, residing mostly in the See also:south of See also:France
.
He published The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), several works on Irish See also:history, Conversations with See also:Carlyle (1892), See also:Memoirs (1888), &c
.
In 1891 he became first See also:president of the Irish See also:Literary Society
.
He was married three times, his third wife dying in 1889
.
He died on the 9th of See also:February 1903
.
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