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John Blake Dillon (5 May 1814 – 15 September 1866) was an Irish writer and politician who was one of the founding members of the Young Ireland movement. John Blake Dillon was born in the town of Ballaghaderreen, on the border of Co. Mayo and Co. Roscommon.〔O'Cathaoir, Brendan. "John Blake Dillon, Young Irelander." Page 5. Irish Academic Press, 1990〕 He was a son of Anne Blake and her husband Luke Dillon (d. 1826), who had been a land agent for his cousin Patrick Dillon, 11th Earl of Roscommon.〔Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh ed., ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' (Burkes Peerage Ltd, London, 1976), page 363.〕 He was educated at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, leaving after only two years there, having decided that he was not meant for the priesthood.〔Mulvey, Helen. "Thomas Davis and Ireland." Page 56. CUA Press, 2003〕 He later studied law at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), and in London, before being called to the Irish Bar.〔Mulvey, Helen. "Thomas Davis and Ireland." Page 56-57. CUA Press, 2003〕 It was during his time at TCD that he first met and befriended Thomas Davis. While working for ''The Morning Register'' newspaper he met Charles Gavan Duffy, with whom he and Davis founded ''The Nation'' in 1842, which was dedicated to promoting Irish nationalism and all three men became important members of Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, which advocated the repeal of the Act of Union 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.〔Thomas E. Hachey, Joseph M. Hernon, Lawrence John McCaffrey. "The Irish Experience: A Concise History," Pages 73. M.E. Sharpe, 1996〕〔Mulvey, Helen. "Thomas Davis and Ireland." Page 57-58. CUA Press, 2003〕 The young wing of the party, of which they were key members with William Smith O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher, came to be known as Young Ireland and advocated the threat of force to achieve repeal of the Act of Union.〔Thomas E. Hachey, Joseph M. Hernon, Lawrence John McCaffrey. "The Irish Experience: A Concise History," Pages 62 & 90. M.E. Sharpe, 1996〕〔Mary Teresa Hayden, George Aloysius Moonan. "A Short History of the Irish People from the Earliest Times to 1920," Pages 489-491. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1922〕 This was in contrast to the committed pacifism of O'Connell's "Old Ireland" wing.〔Thomas E. Hachey, Joseph M. Hernon, Lawrence John McCaffrey. "The Irish Experience: A Concise History," Pages 62 & 90. M.E. Sharpe, 1996〕〔Mary Teresa Hayden, George Aloysius Moonan. "A Short History of the Irish People from the Earliest Times to 1920," Pages 489-491. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1922〕 This posturing eventually led to the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848 where a countryside devastated by the Irish Potato Famine failed to rise up and support the rebels.〔Thomas E. Hachey, Joseph M. Hernon, Lawrence John McCaffrey. "The Irish Experience: A Concise History," Pages 62 & 90. M.E. Sharpe, 1996〕〔Mary Teresa Hayden, George Aloysius Moonan. "A Short History of the Irish People from the Earliest Times to 1920," Page 502. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1922〕 According to fellow Irish nationalist, Justin McCarthy:
After the failure of Young Ireland's uprising, Dillon fled Ireland, escaping first to France and, eventually, to the United States, where he served the New York Bar.〔W. J. McCormack, Patrick Gillan. "The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture," Page 167. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001〕 Dillon returned to Ireland on amnesty in 1855 and in 1865 was elected as a Member of Parliament for Tipperary. By now he advocated a Federal union of Britain and Ireland and denounced the violent methods advocated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood or Fenian movement.〔W. J. McCormack, Patrick Gillan. "The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture," Page 167. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001〕 John Blake Dillon died of cholera in Killarney, aged 52, and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. He was the father of John Dillon, and grandfather of James Dillon.〔W. J. McCormack, Patrick Gillan. "The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture," Page 167. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001〕 ;Additional Reading *(The Politics of Irish Literature: from Thomas Davis to W.B. Yeats, Malcolm Brown ), Allen & Unwin, 1973. *John Mitchel, A Cause Too Many, 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Blake Dillon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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