Charles Gavan Duffy
(1816-1903)

newspaper founder

Died aged 86

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC (12 April 1816 – 9 February 1903), was an Irish poet and journalist (editor of The Nation), Young Irelander and tenant-rights activist. After emigrating to Australia in 1856 he entered the politics of Victoria on a platform of land reform, and in 1871-72 served as the colony's 8th Premier.

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Commemorated on 1 plaque

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Dublin, Ireland

Independent House Site of the office of "The Nation" Founded in A.D. 1842 by Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy & John Blake Dillon

Abbey Street Middle, Dublin, Ireland where they worked (1849)