William Patrick Ryan (1867–1942), was an

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and

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. He was born near

Templemore Templemore () is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Eliogarty. It is part of the parish of Templemore, Clonmore and Killea in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. The 2011 Cens ...

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. The early part of his career was spent in

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, where he worked as a journalist. Upon returning to Ireland he began his own newspapers, titled ''Peasant'' and ''Irish Nation''. He was condemned by Cardinal Michael Logue for his radical

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views and returned to London in 1910.W. P. Ryan
Ricorso.net. Retrieved 28 November 2020. Ryan's son

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was the biographer of PH Pearse and

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and the memorialist of the Easter Rising, in which he fought.

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* 1867 births 1942 deaths People from County Tipperary Irish journalists Irish newspaper founders Irish poets Irish novelists Irish socialists Irish male novelists Irish male poets {{Ireland-journalist-stub