Young Ireland

noun

1. a movement or party of Irish patriots in the 1840s who split with Daniel O'Connell because they favoured a more violent policy than that which he promoted

Example Sentences

An energetic figure like Volodymyr Zelensky, for instance, evokes the 19th-century’s youthful nationalists and nationalisms — the Young Turks, Young Ireland.

From New York Times

After that, Jordan Larmour scored a hat-trick and a young Ireland team scored 40 second-half points to beat Italy 54-7.

From The Guardian

The son of a wealthy Irish Catholic merchant and constitutional nationalist, he became a leading figure in the Young Ireland movement of the mid-1840s — a brilliant orator who was popularly known as “Meagher of the Sword” for a speech he gave on the theoretical justification of armed force against British rule.

From Washington Post

After the failure of the Young Ireland uprising that summer, he was arrested and found guilty of treason; his death sentence was subsequently commuted, and he was sent to Tasmania, also known as Van Diemen’s Land, for life.

From Washington Post

Golden set out to bring a modern irrigation system to parched northwestern Nebraska in the late 19th century, some of the more established settlers objected, fearing that acknowledging the problem would stanch the flow of immigrants who had turned the area into a “young Ireland.”

From Washington Times