James Fintan Lalor

James Fintan Lalor ( born March 13, 1807 in Raheen, County Laois, † December 27, 1849 in Dublin) was an Irish journalist and author. As a leading member of the Young irelander he played an important role in the Irish rebellions of 1848.

Lalors writings, particularly his views on land reform, were one of the theoretical cornerstones of the Irish independence movement. While many of his contemporaries regarded the repeal of the Act of Union and thus the restoration of a separate Irish state as a central demand, presented for Lalor, particularly against the background of the great famine of 1845-1848 the land issue represents the essential point He claimed that the power to dispose of all land on the island of Ireland should only lie with the people of Ireland and made in contrast to the then popular in Ireland believes England the chief responsibility for the famine, specifically the Irish landlords responsible.

After several months of internment without trial due to the uprising of September 1848 Lalor was released due to poor health, and died shortly afterwards at the age of 43 years. His grave is located on the Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

James Connolly was referring repeatedly to Lalors writings and referred to him as the " clearest thinker " among the Irish revolutionaries of the 19th century. Patrick Pearse said Lalor, together with Theobald Wolfe Tone, John Mitchel and Thomas Davis as one of the " evangelists of Irish nationalism ."

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• Journalist (Ireland )
• Briton
• Born in 1807
• Died in 1849
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