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Patrick James Smyth (c. 1823–1885) "Nicaragua Smyth" was an Irish politician and journalist.〔D. J. O'Donoghue, ‘Smyth, Patrick James (c.1823–1885)’, rev. Brigitte Anton, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 (accessed 11 April 2008 )〕 He was educated at Clongowes Wood College where he became friends with Thomas Francis Meagher, with whom he joined the Repeal Association in 1844. Following his involvement in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, Smyth fled to America where he worked as a journalist〔 and became involved in the New York Irish Directory. There he was persuaded to go to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in 1853 to facilitate the escape to America of John Mitchel, the Irish activist.〔 Whilst there he married a local girl Jeannie Regan. Smyth was nicknamed Nicaragua by Mitchel on account of the former's support for railway projects in that country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Young Irelanders )〕 On his return to Ireland Smyth was elected a Home Rule Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmeath at a by-election on 17 June 1871, and was reelected in 1874.〔Walker, op. cit., page 119〕 At the 1880 general election, he did not seek re-election in Westmeath, but stood instead in Tipperary, where he was elected unopposed.〔Walker, op. cit., page 126〕 He left the House of Commons at the end of 1884, when he was appointed as Secretary to the Irish Loan Fund Board.〔Walker, op. cit., page 129〕 In 1871 he was made chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.〔 ==Notes== 〔 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「Patrick James Smyth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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