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This article is about the Irish public figure. For the English musician, seeDenny Laine.For the American glass artist, seeDanny Lane.

An 1889 bust of Denny Lane sculpted byJohn Lawlor
Plaque on Cork'sSouth Mall

Denny Lane(4 December 1818 – 29 November 1895) was an Irish businessman and nationalist public figure inCork city,and in his youth aYoung Irelander.[1]

Although a Catholic, he graduated from the mainly ProtestantTrinity College, Dublin,where he joined theCollege Historical Society,became a friend ofCharles Gavan DuffyandThomas Davis,and moved in the circle from which the Young Ireland movement sprang.[2]He wascalled to the barfromInner Temple.[1]Under the pen name "Domhnall na Glanna"[3]or "Domhnall Gleannach",[4]he wrote Irish nationalist and romantic lyrics which were published inThe Nationin the 1840s, the best known being "Carraigdhoun" (or "Lament of the Irish Maiden" ) and "Kate of Araglen".[1][4]Lane and his college classmateMichael Joseph Barrywere the most prominent Young Irelanders in Cork, and were interned inCork City Gaolafter theYoung Irelander Rebellion of 1848.[1][5]Thomas Carlyleon his 1849 Irish tour met Lane on 17 July, describing him as a "fine brown Irish figure, Denny; distiller – ex-repealer;frank, hearty, honest air; likeAlfred Tennysona little ".[6]

Lane took over his father's distillery in Cork and later started several industrial businesses near the city, with mixed success.[1]He took an interest in technology and industrial innovation.[1]He was on the boards of theMacroom Railway Companyand theBlackrock and Passage Railway Company,and also involved in Cork'sSchool of Art,School of Music,and Literary & Scientific and Historical & Archaeological societies.[1][7]He stood for Parliament in the1876 Cork City by-election,but theHome Rulevote wassplitwithJohn Daly,so that unionistWilliam Gouldingwas elected.[1]

He died at his home on Cork'sSouth Mallin November 1895, aged 77.[1]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Lane, Denny (1883)."Clerk Maxwell's 'Devil on Two Sticks'".Nature.28(709): 104.doi:10.1038/028104c0.ISSN0028-0836.S2CID4140975.
  • Lane, Denny (26 September 1885)."On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine".Scientific American.20(508): 8109–12.doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09261885-8109supp.ISSN0036-8733.Archived fromthe originalon 4 March 2016.Retrieved12 January2016.
  • Lane, Denny (November 1885). "Then and Now. A Literary Retrospect. Part I".The Irish Monthly.13(149). Irish Jesuit Province: 607–616.JSTOR20497332.
  • Lane, Denny (December 1885). "Then and Now. A Literary Retrospect. Part II".The Irish Monthly.13(150). Irish Jesuit Province: 644–656.JSTOR20497338.
  • Lane, Denny (3 July 1886)."Gas Engineering and Modern Science".Scientific American.22(548 supp): 8750–8753.doi:10.1038/scientificamerican07031886-8750bsupp.ISSN0036-8733.OCLC5842229501.
  • Lane, Denny (1888). "Water-gas: its chemistry, history, and prospects".The Iron and Coal Trades Review.
  • Lane, Denny (February 1891). "Art as a Profession and as a Branch of Education".The Irish Monthly.19(212). Irish Jesuit Province: 73–81.JSTOR20498152.
  • Lane, Denny (9 October 1891). "Distribution of energy by gas".The Electrician.
  • Lane, Denny (March 1893). "The Irish Accent in English Literature".The Irish Monthly.21(237). Irish Jesuit Province: 151–156.JSTOR20498492.
  • Lane, Denny (May 1893). "The Irish Industries Association".The Irish Monthly.21(239). Irish Jesuit Province: 237–241.JSTOR20498514.

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

  • "Famous People: Denny Lane".Cork City Gaol.Retrieved10 January2016.
  • "Denny Lane Papers"(PDF).Identity Statements.Cork City and County Archives. 2005. CCCA/U611.Retrieved10 January2016.
  • Cronin, Maura (2005)."Young Ireland in Cork, 1840-1849".In Dunne, T.; Geary, L.M. (eds.).History and the Public Sphere: Essays in Honour of John A. Murphy.Cork: Cork University Press.ISBN1859183921.Retrieved10 January2016.
  • Gwynn, Denis (March 1949). "Denny Lane and Thomas Davis".Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review.38(149). Irish Province of the Society of Jesus: 15–28.JSTOR30100243.

Citations[edit]

  1. ^abcdefghiCork City Gaol
  2. ^Gwynn 1949, p.16
  3. ^Cronin 2005, fn.5
  4. ^abDavis, Thomas(1845)."Cate of Araglen".The Spirit of the nation. Ballads and songs by the writers of "The Nation," with original and ancient music, arranged for the voice and piano forte.Dublin:James Duffy. pp. 277–8.
  5. ^Cronin 2005, pp.5,14
  6. ^Carlyle, Thomas (1882).Reminiscences of my Irish Journey in 1849.New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 106.
  7. ^Gwynn 1949, p.28

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