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John Mitchel (Irish: Seán Mistéal; 3 November 1815 – 20 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist writer and journalist chiefly renowned for his indictment of British policy in Ireland during the years of the Great Famine.
- 20 March 1875 (aged 59), Newry, Ireland
John Mitchel was acclaimed by Patrick Pearse, who declared Jail Journal to be ‘the last of the four gospels of the new testament of Irish nationality, the last and the fieriest and the most sublime’. De Valera revered Mitchel, and when in 1943 he imagined Ireland as ‘the home of a people who valued mat-erial wealth only as a basis for ...
20 de abr. de 2023 · John Mitchel was the most influential late nineteenth-century Irish nationalist. He popularized the concept that the Irish famine was deliberate English genocide. In very poor health, he fought and won a parliamentary seat in Tipperary in 1885; all ambitious young nationalists like Parnell and notably Dillon, rallied around him ...
John Mitchel | Irish writer | Britannica. Contents. John Mitchel. Irish writer. Learn about this topic in these articles: contribution to Irish literature. In Irish literature: Irish nationalism and the Great Potato Famine. …Britain’s policies during the famine: John Mitchel and James Fintan Lalor.
27 de jun. de 2018 · A journalist and Irish nationalist best known for his critical analysis of British relief policy during the Great Famine, John Mitchel (1815–1875) was born at Camnish, Co. Londonderry, on 3 November 1815. The son of a Presbyterian minister, Mitchel attended Trinity College and practiced as a solicitor in Banbridge, Co. Down, for several years.
The books of Charles Trevelyan (1847) and John Mitchel (1860) constitute pioneering writings on the Great Famine and despite their extreme views they defined a framework which helps to understand later historiographical developments, from nationalism to revisionism and to post-revisionism.
This book chronicles the life and times of John Mitchel, a radical Irish nationalist who relocated to the American South, where he became an ardent supporter of the Confederacy before and...
