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President Michael D Higgins unveils a statue of Thomas Davis – who was one of the founders of the Young Ireland movement and who wrote several rebel songs, including A Nation Once Again – in Mallow, Co. Cork this afternoon.

*John Delaney out of shot.

Meanwhile…

Thomas Davis

Top pic via Eoin English

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Finally.

A new stamp to celebrate the bicentenary of Thomas Davis, a founder of the Young Ireland Movement (and according to wikipedia a “professional juggler’ by the age of 13)

An Post writes:

“The 68c stamp, designed by Irish design agency Conor & David [Conor Nolan and David Wall], features an engraving of Thomas Davis taken from the book Memoirs of an Irish Patriot by Charles Gavan Duffy (in the National Library of Ireland).”

FIGHT!

Available here

Update:

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Professor De Selby writes:

“Along with this commemorative stamp, and in keeping with their attempts to appeal to the youth of today the Philatetic Advisory Committe have decided, based in no small way on the wild success of their ‘Cats of the Internet’ series, to run a sister stamp which features an engraving of Thomas Davis’ feline companion: Cát Davis, who is credited with inspiring the lyrics to Davis’ famous poem ‘A Nation Once Again’ whilst passing an abnormally large hairball”