About Charles Gavan Duffy
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC, was an Irish poet, politician and journalist, Young Irelander and tenant-rights activist. After emigrating to Australia in 1856 he entered the politics of Victoria on a platform of land reform, and in 1871–1872 served as the colony's 8th Premier. In Belfast, Duffy went on to edit The Vindicator, an O'Connellite journal launched by Thomas O'Hagan (later the first Catholic to become Lord Chancellor of Ireland since 1687). In 1842, Duffy co-founded The Nation with Thomas Osborne Davis, and John Blake Dillon. When he had first followed O'Connell, Duffy concedes that he had "burned with the desire to set up again the Celtic race and the catholic church". Her daughter was later to marry Duffy's eldest son by his first marriage, John Gavan Duffy.
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