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Young Ireland | |
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 Irish tricolour raised in the Young Ireland rebellion 1848 | |
| Founded | 1842 |
| Dissolved | 1849 |
| Preceded by | Repeal Association |
| Succeeded by | Tenant Right League, Irish Republican Brotherhood |
| Newspaper | The Nation |
| Ideology | Irish nationalism Liberalism Radicalism[1] Land reform |
| National affiliation | Repeal Association (1842–1847) Irish Confederation (1847–1848) |
| Colours | Green, white and orange |
| Slogan | A Nation Once Again |
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Young Ireland (Irish: Éire Óg, IPA: [ˈeːɾʲə ˈoːɡ]) was a political and cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform. Grouped around the Dublin weekly The Nation, it took issue with the compromises and clericalism of the larger national movement, Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, from which it seceded in 1847. Despairing, in the face of the Great Famine, of any other course, in 1848 Young Irelanders attempted an insurrection. Following the arrest and the exile of most of their leading figures, the movement split between those who carried the commitment to "physical force" forward into the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and those who sought to build a "League of North and South" linking an independent Irish parliamentary party to tenant agitation for land reform.
- ^ Peter Billingham, ed. (2005). Radical Initiatives in Interventionist and Community Drama. Intellect. ISBN 9781841500683.
Active in the 1840s, Young Ireland was formed by radical intellectuals, and was influenced by the pan European nationalist movements of the period. The group launched an unsuccessful rising in 1848.