Charles Gavan Duffy - Definition and Overview

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816 - 1903) was a poet, born in Monaghan, early took to journalism, and became one of the founders of the Nature newspaper, and one of the leaders of the Young Ireland movement. Thereafter he went to Australia, where he became a leading politician, and rose to be Premier of Victoria. His later years were spent chiefly on the Continent. He did much to stimulate in Ireland a taste for the national history and literature, started The Library of Ireland, and made a collection, The Ballad Poetry of Ireland, which was a great success. He also published an autobiography, My Life in Two Hemispheres.

This article is originally from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.