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Thomas Michael "Tom" Kettle (9 February 1880 – 9 September 1916) was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Tyrone from 1906 to 1910 at Westminster. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, then on the outbreak of World War I in 1914 enlisted for service in an Irish regiment where in 1916 he was killed on the Western Front. He was a much admired old comrade of James Joyce,〔Joyce and Company By David Pierce (London:2006) p152〕 who considered him to be his best friend in Ireland,〔Conor, Volume I: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien: Volume I ..., Volume 2 By Donald Harman Akenson (Canada:1994) p49〕 as well as the likes of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Oliver St. John Gogarty and Robert Wilson Lynd. He was one of the leading figures of the generation who at the turn of the twentieth century gave new intellectual life to Irish party politics, and to the constitutional movement towards All-Ireland Home Rule. A gifted speaker with an incisive mind and devastating wit, his death was regarded as a great loss to Ireland's political and intellectual life.〔''A Dictionary of Irish History since 1800'', D. J. Hickey & J. E. Doherty , Gill & MacMillan (1980)〕 As G. K. Chesterton surmised, "Thomas Michael Kettle was perhaps the greatest example of that greatness of spirit which was so ill rewarded on both sides of the channel () He was a wit, a scholar, an orator, a man ambitious in all the arts of peace; and he fell fighting the barbarians because he was too good a European to use the barbarians against England, as England a hundred years before has used the barbarians against Ireland".〔Walking Like A Queen - Irish Impressions By G. K. Chesterton (2008 Tradibooks edition, France) p90.〕 ==Family background== Thomas Kettle was born in Artane, Dublin,〔(One of several sources which give Artane as Tom Kettle's place of birth ); accessed 16 June 2014.〕 the seventh of twelve children of Andrew J. Kettle (1833–1916), a progressive farmer, and founder of the Irish Land League, and his wife, Margaret (née McCourt). One of his brothers was the industrial pioneer, Laurence Kettle. Andrew Kettle influenced his son considerably through his political activities, having been involved from an early age in the constitutional movement to achieve Home Rule. Andrew joined Michael Davitt in the foundation of the Irish Land League and was one of the signatories of the "No Rent Manifesto". He had adhered to Parnell in the 1890 crisis, and stood for election as a nationalist candidate on several occasions.〔''Cork Examiner'', 25 September 1916: from Andrew Kettle's obituary (text in full in article on the latter)〕 Walking like a Queen 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「Tom Kettle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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