''The Tipperary Leader'' was a title used by a number of publications in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. In 1854

Maurice Leyne Maurice Richard Leyne (1820-1854) was an Irish nationalist, repeal agitator and member of Young Ireland. He was born in 1820 the grand-nephew of Daniel O'Connell and only member of the family to align themselves with the Young Ireland movement. He ...

(a Young Irelander and Grandnephew of

Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell (I) ( ga, Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilizat ...

) became editor of the ''Tipperary Leader'' newspaper,FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF THE LATE CANON FOGARTY(no. 31)
by Canon JJ Condon. this was a weekly publication, published in

Thurles Thurles (; ''Durlas Éile'') is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of the same name in the barony of Eliogarty and in the ecclesiastical parish of Thurles (Roman Catholic parish), Thurles. The cathedral ch ...

, founded by priests in the diocese. Following Leynes death in 1854, William Kenneally revived the title and edited the ''Tipperary Leader'' for the next two years. It disappeared because of a libel action of £2000 against its editor. The title was revived gain in 1880 and published until 1885. The future

Anti-Parnellite Nationalist The Irish National Federation (INF) was a nationalist political party in Ireland. It was founded in 1891 by former members of the Irish National League (INL), after a split in the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) on the leadership of Charles S ...

MP for North Monaghan

Daniel MacAleese Daniel MacAleese (1833 – 1 December 1900) was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was elected as the Irish National Federation (Anti-Parnel ...

contributed to the paper.Daniel MacAleese
Biography.

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