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James Napper Tandy (February 1739 – 24 August 1803), known as Napper Tandy, was an Irish revolutionary and a founder of the United Irishmen. He experienced exile, first in the United States and then in France , for his role in attempting to advance a republican insurrection in Ireland with French assistance.
James Napper Tandy was an Irish politician, ineffectual revolutionary, and popular hero memorialized in the Irish ballad “The Wearing of the Green”: In the early 1780s Tandy was an artillery commander in the Irish Volunteers, and in 1791 he helped to form a Dublin branch of the radical Society of
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Jul 4, 2020 · James Napper Tandy was born in the Cornmarket area of Dublin and was baptized in St. Audoen’s Church on February 16th, 1739. His mother was Anne Jones, a woman from a very wealthy background. They belonged to the Church of St Audoens and this is where Tandy was baptized. His father was an ironmonger, whose family held lands in County Meath ...
Society of United Irishmen, Irish political organization formed in October 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone, James Napper Tandy, and Thomas Russell to achieve Roman Catholic emancipation and (with Protestant cooperation) parliamentary reform. British attempts to suppress the society caused its
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Tandy, James Napper, a prominent actor in Irish affairs between 1780 and the Union, was born in Dublin in 1740. He was engaged in business, and from an early period took part in every popular movement in the Irish capital. In 1780 he was expelled from the Dublin Volunteer Artillery for the expression of extreme opinions, and two years ...
Tandy, James NapperA celebrated radical in Dublin politics in the 1770s and 1780s and a prominent United Irishman in the 1790s, Napper Tandy (1740–1802) was born in Dublin, the son of a merchant. He entered municipal politics in the 1770s and quickly became known for his reformist views.
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Tandy, James Napper, 1740–1803, Irish revolutionary. Originally a small tradesman in Dublin, he gained attention by his attacks on municipal corruption and his proposal to boycott English goods as a reprisal for the restrictions placed on Irish
