Nationalism and the Famine: Young Ireland

Young Ireland movement [see Coohill, 49-51]

The Nation

Thomas Osborne Davis - chief contributor

Charles Gavan Duffy - editor

John Blake Dillon - special land correspondent

ideas

romantic (cultural) nationalism

John Mitchel (1815-1875) - Dublin barrister; Presbyterian; republican; advocated revolution

James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849) - Catholic nationalist writer; tenant rights; agrarian-led revolt

"rebellion" (29 July 1848, Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary)

William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864) and about 100 followers

"the battle of Widow McCormack's cabbage patch"

Mitchel and Smith O'Brien transported to Van Dieman's land; both later escaped to the US

 

outcomes and legacies

arrests and transportations [Prisoners at Kilmainham Gaol]

death of Repeal movement

idea: non-sectarian Irish republic

tenant rights + nationalism

romantic nationalism

revolutionary acts

> Mitchel's Jail Journal and The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)

Amartya Sen: "Any famine is easy to prevent if a government has the incentive to prevent it. A government with the will can generate the necessary income, and then the market can deal with the supply problem by moving food."