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Irish Statesman

The Irish Statesman was a weekly journal promoting the views of the Irish Dominion League.


Irish Dominion League

The Irish Statesman, a weekly journal promoting the views of the Irish Dominion League, ran from 27 June 1919 to June 1920, edited by Warre B. Wells and with contributions from W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and George William Russell.


see also

Baron FitzGerald

William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey (1783–1843), Irish statesman and 1st Baron FitzGerald

Earl of Donoughmore

Lord Donoughmore was the eldest son of the Irish statesman and lawyer John Hely-Hutchinson, who married Christiana, daughter of Abraham Nixon (or Nickson) and niece and heiress of Richard Hutchinson of Knocklofty in County Tipperary, whose surname she and her husband adopted.

Erik Orton

Orton also penned The Drummings (in collaboration with Joshua Williams) based on the life and times of Irish statesman Daniel O'Connell.

Parnell, Iowa

Parnell, in Fillmore Township, Iowa County, Iowa, was named after Charles Stewart Parnell, a noble Irish statesman who had come to the American people to plead the cause of Ireland's land-impoverished peasants.

Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet

He was a close friend of the Irish statesman and writer Edmund Burke.

William Vesey-Fitzgerald

William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey (1783–1843), Irish statesman, MP for Clare, Newport, Lostwithiel, and Ennis