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326 Stephen Dunford: The Journey of The IrIsh
The round tower marking O’Connell’s grave in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
The founders of the new movement were three energetic and passionate young spirits, Charles Gavan Duffy who hailed from Dublin Street, in Monaghan Town.
John Blake Dillon of Market Square, Ballaghadereen, county Mayo and Thomas Os- borne Davis, a Protestant lawyer from Mallow, county Cork. The author of many poems and songs, Davis is probably best remembered as the writer of The West’s Awake and A Nation Once Again.
Duffy had already founded the Nation newspaper in 1842, a vehicle which would later
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