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Old Ireland [Ancient Ireland]
Author: Thomas Osborne Davis
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Source- First published in The Nation 10 August, 1844.
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poetry. [Edited] with an introduction by T. W. Rolleston.
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Library). 1910. [Published in Dublin by the Talbot press,
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memoirs of an Irish patriot, 18401846. 1890.
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essays 1846. Facsimile reprint, with an introduction by
John Kelly, 1998, Washington, DC: Woodstock Books.
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Corp. 1974, 1914 [Reprint of the 1914 ed. published by W.
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memoir, 18451945. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1945.
[Foreword by an Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera.]
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education in Ireland: extracts from speeches and writings
of Thomas Wyse, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, Charles
Gavan Duffy, Frank Hugh O'Donnell and others. Belfast:
Athol, 1992.
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& teacher; the essence of his writings in prose and
poetry. Dublin: Gill 1914.
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a lecture delivered by William O'Brien, M.P., at the City
Hall, Cork, on 5th November 1915. Cork: Free Press Office,
1915.
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irischer Freiheitssänger. Wiener Beiträge zur
englischen Philologie, Bd. XLVI. Wien und Leipzig, W.
Braumüller, 1915.
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centenary of Thomas Davis and young Ireland. Dublin
[1945].
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Lives). 1934.
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Ireland. Dublin: The Stationery Office, 1945.
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Waterford, 1945.
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Studies; an Irish quarterly review, 34:135 (1945)
30010.
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centenary lecture in Newry'. An t-Iubhar (=Newry) 1946,
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Bill (Centenary Series 1). Oxford and Cork, 1948.
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comóradh i gcuimhne Thomáis Daibhis, Magh
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Patriot Parliament, 1689'. Irish Ecclesiastical Record,
5th ser., 74:8 (1950) 14151.
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account of the Thomas Davis centenary meeting held in
Dublin on November 20th, 1914, including Dr. Mahaffy's
prohibition of the 'Man called Pearse,' and an unpublished
protest by 'A.E.', Cork 1965.
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Irish nation'. Hermathena, 103 (1966) 531.
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literature: from Thomas Davis to W. B. Yeats. Seattle
(University of Washington Press) 1973.
- Eileen Sullivan, Thomas Davis. Lewisburg, New
Jersey: Bucknell University Press, 1978.
- Mary G. Buckley, Thomas Davis: a study in
nationalist philosophy. Ph.D. Thesis, National University
of Ireland, at the Department of Irish History, UCC,
1980.
- Giulio Giorello, "A nation once again": Thomas
Osborne Davis and the construction of the Irish "popular"
tradition. History of European Ideas, 20:13 (1995)
21117.
- John Neylon Molony, A soul came into Ireland:
Thomas Davis 18141845. Dublin 1995.
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Irish language': O'Connell versus Davis." The History
Review: journal of the UCD History Society, 9 (1995)
4450.
- John Neylon Molony, 'Thomas Davis: Irish
Romantic idealist'. In: Richard Davis; Jennifer Livett;
Anne-Maree Whitaker; Peter Moore (eds.), Irish-Australian
studies: papers delivered at the eighth Irish-Australian
Conference, Hobart July 1995 (Sydney 1996) 5263.
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a tradition.' Studies; an Irish quarterly review, 85
(1996) 3742.
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cultural history in Ireland, 17701970. (Cork
1998).
- Joseph Langtry; Brian Fay, 'The Davis
influence.' In: Joseph Langtry (ed.), A true Celt: Thomas
Davis, The Nation, rebellion and transportation: a series
of essays. (Dublin 1998) 3038.
- Joseph Langtry, 'Thomas Davis (18141845).' In:
Joseph Langtry (ed.), A true Celt: Thomas Davis, The
Nation, rebellion and transportation: a series of essays.
(Dublin 1998) 27.
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and republican ideology: the question of continuity.'
ÉireIreland, 34:2 (1999) 15574.
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republican memory'. ÉireIreland, 34:2 (1999)
5169.
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nationalism and Thomas Davis'. Bullán: an Irish
Studies Review, 5:2 (2001), 2354.
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l'histoire chez la Jeune Irlande: quelle histoire pour une
nation du consensus et de la réconciliation?' In:
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43546.
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irlandaise'. Cercles, 4 (2002), 12131.
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biographical study. Washington, D.C., Catholic University
of America Press, 2003.
Thomas Osborne Davis Old Ireland [Ancient Ireland] in , Ed. D.J. O Donoghue Essays, literary and historical. By
Thomas Davis. Centenary edition, including several
pieces never before collected.. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk, (1914) page 197201
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Created: by Thomas Davis
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