Denny Lane (4 December 1818 – 29 November 1895) was an Irish businessman and nationalist public figure in Cork city, and in his youth a Young Irelander.Cork City Gaol Although a Catholic, he graduated from the mainly Protestant

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, where he joined the College Historical Society, became a friend of

Charles Gavan Duffy Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC (12 April 1816 – 9 February 1903), was an Irish poet and journalist (editor of ''The Nation''), Young Irelander and tenant-rights activist. After emigrating to Australia in 1856 he entered the politics of ...

and Thomas Davis, and moved in the circle from which the Young Ireland movement sprang. He was

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from Inner Temple. Under the pen name "Domhnall na Glanna" or "Domhnall Gleannach", he wrote Irish nationalist and romantic lyrics which were published in '' The Nation'' in the 1840s, the best known being "Carraigdhoun" (or "Lament of the Irish Maiden") and "Kate of Araglen". Lane and his college classmate Michael Joseph Barry were the most prominent Young Irelanders in Cork, and were interned in

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after the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848. Thomas Carlyle on his 1849 Irish tour met Lane on 17 July, describing him as a "fine brown Irish figure, Denny; distiller – ex- repealer; frank, hearty, honest air; like Alfred Tennyson a little". Lane took over his father's distillery in Cork and later started several industrial businesses near the city, with mixed success. He took an interest in technology and industrial innovation. He was on the boards of the Macroom Railway Company and the Blackrock and Passage Railway Company, and also involved in Cork's School of Art,

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, and Literary & Scientific and Historical & Archaeological societies.Gwynn 1949, p.28 He stood for Parliament in the

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, but the Home Rule vote was split with John Daly, so that unionist

William Goulding William Goulding (15 November 1817 – 8 December 1884) was an Irish Conservative Party politician from Cork. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1876 to 1880. At the general election in February 1874, he was stood unsuccessfully as a cand ...

was elected. He died at his home on Cork's

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in November 1895, aged 77.

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Denny Lane, Drawing by Henry Jones/Thaddeus
from Cork City and County Archives {{DEFAULTSORT:Lane, Denny Young Irelanders People from Cork (city) Businesspeople from County Cork Irish poets 19th-century poets 1818 births 1895 deaths Irish barristers Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 19th-century Irish businesspeople Lawyers from County Cork