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Born April 12, 1816 • Ireland
Died February 9, 1903 (aged 86) • Nice • France
Title / Office prime minister (1871-1872), Victoria • parliament (1852-1855), United Kingdom
Founder Young Ireland

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Daniel O’Connell
Irish leader
Sir Roger Casement
British politician
Thomas Addis Emmet
Irish lawyer
William Henry O’Shea
Irish nationalist
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish leader
John Dillon, 1890
John Dillon
Irish leader
O'Brien, William
William O’Brien
Irish politician
Isaac Butt
Irish leader
John Redmond, print by J. Day.
John Redmond
Irish politician
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Gerry Adams
Irish leader
Michael Davitt
Irish political leader
1st Baron Plunket, engraving by David Lucas, 1844, after a painting by Richard Rothwell
William Conyngham Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket
British-Irish lawyer
T.M. Healy, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Lavery; in the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
T.M. Healy
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George III
George III
king of Great Britain
William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
prime minister of United Kingdom
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Irish statesman
Anne
Anne
queen of Great Britain and Ireland
Wellesley, Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess
Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley
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