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Thomas Davis

1814–1845·Wrote in English

The long nineteenth century · Anglo-Irish poetry (late 17th–19th centuries) · English

Young Ireland leader, founder of The Nation. His ballads — A Nation Once Again, The West's Asleep — were designed as political instruments and worked spectacularly well as such.

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