YOUNG IRELAND:  AN IRISH NATION IN IRELAND

I.  AN IRISH NATION, A BRITISH DILEMMA. 

A.  ROOTS OF THE NATIONAL IDEA.  Reform Bill of 1832.  Repeal Association.

B.  FRIENDSHIP & EMPIRE.  Paul Scott, The Day of the Scorpion:  Ahmed Kasim, son of Mohammed Ali Kasim, Muslim ruler of the state of Mirat; Count Bronowsky.  "Little Union" = Anglican + Presbyterian.

C.  ACCULTURATION & EDUCATION.  Alexis de Tocqueville; Andrew Fitzgerald, O.P. (1763-1843), president of the College of Carlow.  National Education Board for Ireland (est. 1831).  Daniel Murray (1768-1852), (Catholic) archbishop of Dublin; John McHale (1791-1881), (Catholic) archbishop of Tuam.  Model Schools (teacher-training colleges).

II.  THOMAS DAVIS (1814-1845), THE VOICE OF YOUNG IRELAND.

A.  LIFE.  Davis born at Mallow, Co. Cork; educated at Trinity College Dublin; admitted ot the Bar, 1838.  Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, and John Blake Dillon = founders of The Nation.   "A Nation Once Again," "The West's Asleep".  Arthur Griffith, president of the Irish Free State.

B.  DAVIS AND THE IRISH NATION.  Utilitarianism.  "Culture" = literature, history, language.  Johann Gottfried Herder. 

III.  YOUNG IRELAND AND MODERN IRELAND.

A.  EDUCATION.  "Repeal Reading Rooms"; the "Library of Ireland." 

B.  PHYSICAL FORCE.  Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) of Waterford city; Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac; "Meagher of the Sword"; Antietam, Gettysburg, Montana.

D.  THE LAND.  James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849) of Tinnakill, Co. Laois.  Michael Doheny (1805-1863) of Co. Tipperary.  Rent strike.

CONCLUSION.