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unusual facts about Irish Nationalist



Edward Blake

In the 1892 election, Blake entered the British House of Commons as an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of South Longford in the centre of Ireland.

Irish Anti-Partition League

Prior to the establishment of the League, there had been no rank-and-file organisation of Irish nationalists since the Irish Union Association and Northern Council for Unity had become inactive in the late 1930s.

Robin Stirling

A former pupil of Ballymena Academy he was critical of the politics of Roger Casement,a fellow attendee of Ballymena Academy and prominent Protestant Irish Nationalist who was previously a British diplomat later executed for treason.


see also

Daniel Sheehan

D. D. Sheehan (Daniel Desmond Sheehan) (1873–1948), Irish nationalist and author

Erskine Childers

Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922), author and Irish nationalist, who served as secretary-general of the Irish delegation that negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921

Evelyn Parnell

She was a relative of the Irish nationalist political leader Charles Stewart Parnell.

Frank O'Donnell

Frank Hugh O'Donnell (1846–1916), Irish nationalist writer and politician

Griffith Barracks

Prominent Irish Nationalist leaders such as William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher (later Acting Governor of Montana), James Stephens (founder of the IRB) and "Honest" Tom Steele, were among its famous historical prisoners.

James Carrige Rushe Lardner

James Carrige Rushe Lardner (1879 – 3 May 1925) was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for North Monaghan, 1907-18.

James Mahon

James Patrick Mahon (1800-1891), Irish nationalist journalist, barrister, parliamentarian and international mercenary

Justin McCarthy

Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859–1936), Irish nationalist and UK Member of Parliament

Mercer's Hospital

James Gubbins Fitzgerald (1852–1926), a close friend of Charles Stewart Parnell, was a medical practitioner and an Irish nationalist politician and MP.

Michael Louis Hearn

Michael Louis Hearn (1866 – 1 May 1931) was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for South County Dublin, 1917-18.

Pádraig Ó Siadhail

Among his works are the murder mystery Peaca an tSinsir (1996), a collection of short stories under the title Seacht gCineál Meisce agus Finscéalta Eile (2001), a historical novel entitled Beirt Bhan Mhisniúla (2011), a biography of Piaras Béaslaí, Irish nationalist and writer, and a collection of essay about Canada, Idir Dhá Thír: Sceitsí ó Cheanada (2005).

Patrick Brady

P. J. Brady (1868–1943), Irish nationalist MP in the United Kingdom Parliament for Dublin St Stephen's Green

Patrick Crumley

Patrick Crumley (1860 – 17 November 1922) was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for South Fermanagh, 1910-18.

Patrick Finucane

Pat Finucane Centre, Northern Irish nationalist advocacy and lobbying entity

Richard Pigott

Nothing was done about his accusation, which was publicised in the newspapers, and he turned against the League, which was allied to several Irish nationalist groups including the Irish Parliamentary Party led by Charles Stewart Parnell.

Robert E. Sherwood

He was a great-great-grandson of the former New York State Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet and a great-grandnephew of the Irish nationalist Robert Emmet who was executed for high treason in an abortive rebellion attempt against the British.

Salvador Bermúdez de Castro, 2nd Duke of Ripalda

His cousin Richard Lalor was an Irish nationalist member of the British House of Commons.

Thomas O'Connor

T. P. O'Connor (1848–1929), Irish nationalist, journalist, and politician

William Larkin

William John Larkin (died 1885), New Zealand priest, Irish nationalist and newspaper proprietor

William Redmond

Willie Redmond or William Hoey Kearney Redmond (1861–1917), Irish nationalist politician, brother of John Redmond, British Army captain