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See also:DAVITT, See also:MICHAEL (1846-1906) , Irish Nationalist politician, son of a See also:peasant See also:farmer in Co. See also:Mayo, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:March 1846. His See also:father was evicted for non-See also:payment of See also:rent in 1851, and migrated to See also:Lancashire, where at the See also:age of ten the boy began See also:work in a See also:cotton See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill at See also:Haslingden. In 1857 he lost his right See also:arm by a machinery See also:accident, and he had to get employment as a newsboy and printer's " See also:devil." He drifted into the ranks of the Fenian brotherhood in 1865, and in 187o he was arrested for See also:treason-See also:- FELONY (0. Fr. felonie, from felon, a word meaning " wicked," common to Romanic languages, cf. Italian fella, fellone, the ultimate origin of which is obscure, but is possibly connected either with Lat. fel, gall, or fallere, to deceive. The English " fel
felony in arranging for sending See also:fire-arms into See also:Ireland, and was sentenced to fifteen years' penal See also:servitude. After seven years he was released on See also:ticket of leave. He at once rejoined the " Irish Republican Brotherhood," and went to the See also:United States, where his See also:mother, herself of See also:American See also:birth, had settled with the See also:rest of the See also:family, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:concert plans with the Fenian leaders there. Returning to Ireland he helped C. S. See also:Parnell to start the See also:Land See also:League in 1879, and his violent speeches resulted in his re-See also:arrest and See also:consignment to See also:Portland by See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Harcourt, then See also:home secretary. He was released in 1882, but was again prosecuted for seditious speeches in 1883, and suffered three months' imprisonment. He had been elected to See also:parliament for See also:Meath as a Nationalist in 1882, but being a convict was disqualified to sit. He was included as one of the respondents before the Parnell See also:Commission (1888–189o) and spoke for five days in his own See also:defence, but his prominent association with the revolutionary Irish schemes was fully established. (See PARNELL.) He took the See also:anti-Parnellite See also:side in 1890, and in 1892 was elected to parliament for See also:North Meath, but was unseated on See also:petition. He was then returned for North-See also:East See also:Cork, but had to vacate his seat through See also:bankruptcy, caused by the See also:costs in the North Meath petition. In 1895 he was elected for See also:West Mayo, but retired before the See also:dissolution in 1900. He died on the 31st of May 1906, in See also:Dublin. A sincere but embittered Nationalist, anti-See also:English to the backbone, anti-clerical, and sceptical as to the value of the purely See also:parliamentary agitation for Home See also:Rule, Davitt was a notable representative of the survival of the Irish
See also:physical force " party, and a strong See also:link with the extremists in See also:America. In later years his Socialistic Radicalism connected him closely with the Labour party. He wrote constantly in American and colonial See also:journals, and published some books, always with the strongest See also:bias against English methods; but his force of See also:character earned him at least the respect of those who could make See also:calm See also:allowance for an open enemy of the established order, and a higher meed of admiration from those who sympathized with his See also:objects or were not in a position to be threatened by them.
End of Article: DAVITT, MICHAEL (1846-1906)
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