home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ The Epic Interactive Encyclopedia 1997 / The_Epic_Interactive_Encyclopedia_97.iso / y / young_ireland / infotext < prev   
Text File  |  1992-09-02  |  339b  |  9 lines
  1. Irish nationalist organization, founded 1840
  2. by William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864), who
  3. attempted an abortive insurrection of the
  4. peasants against the British in Tipperary in
  5. 1848. O'Brien was sentenced to death, but
  6. later pardoned. Young Ireland was formed in
  7. rejection of the nonviolent policies of
  8. Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association.
  9.