Patriot Parliament - Name

Name

The name "Patriot Parliament" was first used in 1893 by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, an Irish nationalist historian, in his edition of essays by his old friend Thomas Davis. In 1843 Davis himself had described the parliament as a "patriot Senate" in his essay "The Irish Parliament of James II".

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