Today marks the birthday of Irish radical republican Michael Davitt (1846–1906), founder of the National Land League and lifelong defender of workers’ rights.

📚 Learn more about Davitt with a selection of books from UCD Press at www.ucdpress.ie

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Photograph of Michael Davitt looking to the side

If you can’t make it in person, you can view the exhibition online www.tcd.ie/library/exhi... and if you'd like to see more, the Michael Davitt Papers are currently being digitised as part of #VirtualTrinityLibrary

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Cabinet card (black and white) of Mary Davitt née Yore, wife of Michael Davitt.

An online exhibition is available www.tcd.ie/library/exhi... and if you'd like to see more, the Michael Davitt Papers are currently being digitised as part of a #VirtualTrinityLibrary project and are available here digitalcollections.tcd.ie/collections/... #MichaelDavitt #irishhistory

Photograph of a crowd gathered at an eviction on a country road in rural Ireland. Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary are carrying furniture out of the cottage.

An online exhibition is available www.tcd.ie/library/exhi... and if you'd like to see more, the Michael Davitt Papers are currently being digitised as part of a #VirtualTrinityLibrary project and are available here digitalcollections.tcd.ie/collections/... #MichaelDavitt #irishhistory

An insight into Michael Davitt and The Irish National Land League from our latest exibition ‘Character is better than wealth: the enduring legacy of Michael Davitt’.

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Group of prisoners pulling a wagon outside Dartmoor prison

If you can’t make it in person, you can still view the exhibition online here www.tcd.ie/library/exhi... and see more from the digitised papers of Michael Davitt here digitalcollections.tcd.ie/collections/... #MichaelDavitt #irishhistory #VirtualTrinityLibrary

An insight into Michael Davitt’s Political Activism and Imprisonment from our latest exhibition ‘Character is better than wealth: the enduring legacy of Michael Davitt’ by Curator and Archvist Ciara Daly.

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Photograph of Michael Davitt

Michael Davitt died #OnThisDay in 1906. In his will he said "To all my friends I leave kind thoughts, to my enemies the fullest forgiveness and to Ireland the undying prayer for the absolute freedom and independence which it was my life's ambition to try and obtain for her." #MichaelDavitt

Photograph of Michael Davitt during his imprisonment in Dartmoor.

Photograph of a page from Michael Davitt's diary from 1882 on the day he was released from Portland Prison

On the morning of the 6th of May 1882, Michael Davitt’s 15-month spell in Portland Prison came to an end. He notes in his diary that he has served just under nine years and has “Three years yet hanging over [his] head." #OnThisDay #MichaelDavitt

Photograph of a diary entry from Sunday the 25th March, 1888 that reads "My 42nd or 40th birthday, I don't care which."

Studio portrait photograph of Michael Davitt in a bowler hat. Photographed by [John Robert] Hanna, 134 Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand. Written on the verso: ‘Robert Davitt', and: '1895’.

Our Michael wasn't much of a birthday person, we can see his contempt shown in his diary entry for his 42nd Birthday in 1888. 🎂🎉

Michael Davitt was born #OTD in Straide, County Mayo in 1846.

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