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Thomas Ainge Devyr arguably embodied the figure of the nineteenth-century transatlantic radical. Born in 1810, his long career linked the Irish land question, English Chartism, and American agrarian radicalism, and he claimed to be an early advocate of the land theories advanced by the Land League. During the Land War, associations with Devyr contributed to the Irish World circle’s belief that they were advancing a well-established tradition of agrarian reform, on both sides of the Atlantic, rather than something entirely new or untested. Devyr’s positions also frequently stood in contrast to many Land Leaguers, and he struggled to accommodate Irish nationalism within his reformist worldview. He also took a narrow view of the abolitionist movement and attacked its leaders. A surprisingly neglected figure, Devyr’s life offers a distinctive perspective on the ideological alliances and the tensions within the land reform movement and with wider social causes in the nineteenth century. |
