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Outline of Life of Denny Lane (After 1895) (1 item)
154 n.d. [after 1895] Manuscript ‘Denny Lane (B1818 – D1895) Patriot, Poet,
Philanthropist’. Gives an outline of Lane’s life, such as ‘Only child went to school at Porter & Hamblins…’, matriculated to Trinity College Dublin aged 16, wrote poems for The Nation, friend of Thomas Davis and Charles Gavan Duffy, a Young Irelander gaoled in 1848. Debts and financial affairs, Secretary of Cork Gas Co., Lane’s brewery for light ale, Silversprings Starch Works, Glanmire, interest in beet sugar, turf and electricity development, address to French Engineers in Paris, character and activities. ‘…to know him was a liberal education…’. 3pp
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