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SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY (1816-1903)

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SIR
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CHARLES GAVAN
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DUFFY (1816-1903)  , Irish and colonial politician, was
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born in
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Monaghan,
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Ireland, on the 12th of
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April 1816 . At an
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early
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age he became connected with the
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press, and was one of the founders (1842) of the Nation, a
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Dublin weekly which was remarkable for its
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talent, for its seditious tendencies, and for the
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fire and spirit of its
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political
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poetry . In 1844
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Duffy was included in the same
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indictment with O'Connell, and shared his conviction in Dublin and his acquittal by the
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House of Lords upon a point of
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law . His ideas, nevertheless, were too revolutionary for O'Connell; a
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schism took
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place in 1846, and Duffy
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united himself to the "
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Young Ireland " party . He was tried for
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treason-
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felony in 1848, but the
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jury were unable to agree . Duffy continued to agitate in the press and in
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parliament, to which he was elected in 1852, but his failure to bring about an
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alliance between Catholics and Protest-ants upon the
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land question determined him in 1856 to emigrate to
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Victoria . There he became ir . 1857
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minister of public
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works, and after an active political career, in the course of which he was
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prime minister from 1871 to 1873, when he was knighted, he was elected
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speaker of the House of
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Assembly in 1877, being made K.C.M.G. in the same
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year . In 188o he resigned and returned to
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Europe, residing mostly in the
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south of
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France . He published The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (1845), several works on Irish
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history, Conversations with
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Carlyle (1892),
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Memoirs (1888), &c . In 1891 he became first
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president of the Irish
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Literary Society . He was married three times, his third wife dying in 1889 .

He died on the 9th of

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February 1903 .

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Sir Chas Gavan Duffy was my Grandfather from Co-Monaghan born April 12th 1816 and was knighted in 1873,my father emigrated to Canada. However we kept the duffy home in Ballyduffy just outside Balina, witch since has been plowed under. When My grandfather passed on my father took his title and held it till he died in 1975. I was the inheritor of the title Sir Roy Edward Duffy and still hold it.
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