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I am still an Irish rebel to the backbone and the spinal marrow, a rebel for the same reason that John Hampden and Algernon Sidney, George Washington and Charles Carrol of Carroltown, were rebels—because tyranny had supplanted the law.

Arriving in Australia in 1856

Charles Gavan Duffy

Charles Gavan Duffy

Charles Gavan Duffy

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Born: April 12, 1816

Died: February 9, 1903 (aged 86)

Bio: The Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and Australian politician, was the 8th Premier of Victoria and one of the most colourful figures in Victorian political history.

Known for:

Conversations with Carlyle (1892)
The Revival of Irish Literature (1894)
Short life of Thomas Davis, 1840-1846

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