Life
1816-1866; b. Ballaghadereen, Co. Mayo; ed. Maynooth and TCD; Bar 1841
[DNB; var. 1842]; learned journalism under Michael Staunton on The
Morning Register along with Charles Gavan Duffy; joined young Ireland
and co-fnd. Irish Conferderation; co-fnd., with Davis and Duffy, The
Nation, 1842; escaped to France, and settled in America, NY Bar, practising
with Richard O’Gorman; advocated federal republic of Britain and
Ireland; returned Ireland on amnesty, 1855; MP Roscommon [DIH; var. Tipperary,
Foster]; Dublin Corporation; 1st Sec. of Nation. Assoc., 1865; denounced
Fenianism; d. of cholera in Killarney, 15 Sept.; bur. Glasnevin; father
of above. DNB DIB DIW DIH RAF FDA
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Criticism
Brendan O’Cathaoir, John Blake Dillon, Young Irelander (IAP
1990), 211pp. See also Irish Booklover, vol. 2.
Roy Foster, Modern Ireland (1988), p.311.
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Notes
Charles Gavan Duffy on the difference between romantic Davis and realist
Dillon [Duffy, infra]; see also Field Day Anthology, gen.
ed. Seamus Deane, (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 1, pp.1176, 1299;
also Field Day Anthology, gen. ed. Seamus Deane, (Derry:
Field Day 1991), Vol. 2. pp.201, 973.
Unrecorded review of F. S. Lyons, John Dillon (1968), on John Blake Dillon, ed. TCD and Maynooth; supportive marriage; short term in Westminister after exile;
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)