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For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade
Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

Thomas Osborne Davis

This country of ours is no sandbank, thrown up by some recent caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation, traceable into antiquity by its piety, its valour, and its sufferings. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of Irish mind.

Thomas Osborne Davis

Come in the evening, or come in the morning;
Come when you're looked for, or come without warning.

Thomas Osborne Davis

Viva la the New Brigade!
Viva la the Old One, too!
Viva la, the Rose shall fade,
And the shamrock shine for ever new.

Thomas Osborne Davis

And then I prayed I yet might see
Our fetters rent in twain,
And Ireland, long a province, be
A Nation once again.

Thomas Osborne Davis

But—hark!—some voice like thunder spake:
The West's awake! the West's awake!

Thomas Osborne Davis

The starlight of heaven above us shall quiver
As our souls flow in one down eternity's river.

Thomas Osborne Davis

Thomas Osborne Davis

Thomas Osborne Davis

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Born: October 14, 1814

Died: September 16, 1845 (aged 30)

Bio: Thomas Osborne Davis was an Irish writer who was the chief organiser of the Young Ireland movement.

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Literary and historical essays 1846 (1845)

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