Charles Gavan Duffy

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816–1903), born in County Monaghan, founded The Nation in 1842 with Thomas Davis and John Blake Dillon and edited it. He emigrated to Australia in 1856, where he rose to high office, and later lived in southern Europe.

The poems here are taken from H. Halliday Sparling's anthology Irish Minstrelsy (London: Walter Scott, 1888).