Drancy
Drancy , city (1990 pop. 60,928), Seine-Saint Denis dept., N central France. An industrial suburb NE of Paris, Drancy produces automobile brakes, aircraft, and hardware. There are also breweries and printing plants. During World War II, Drancy was the site of a Nazi concentration camp.
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A radical reformer.(Michael Davitt: Freelance Radical and Frondeur)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; LAURENCE MARLEY Michael Davitt: Freelance radical and frondeur Four Courts Press, 2007, 45...and engaging work is that a rigorous intellectual biography of Michael Davitt's entire career has been long overdue. The man best known as...
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JOHN H. DAVITT, LEADER OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S ESPIONAGE UNIT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/18/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...value of hard work. John H. Davitt, 81, who died Monday of pancreatic...was the disciplinarian," said Michael Davitt of Silver Spring, Md., who...County Wicklow by a friend," Michael Davitt said. "He built a house on it...
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 "Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL)")
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LF, Davitt celebrate sectional win
Newspaper article from: Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL); 2/26/2009; ; 622 words
; ...it into a sprint style." Davitt and friends all ripped through...relay. The team of Sheng Hu, Michael Hoelterhoff, Davitt and Mitch Stoehr claimed a...The team of Hoelterhoff, Michael Gannon, Davitt and Hu registered a time of...
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Espionage Attorney John Davitt Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/17/2005; 510 words
; ...include his wife of 54 years, Margaret Devine Davitt of Cotuit and Naples; 10 children, Irene Jones...N.H., Patricia Long of Silver Spring, John Davitt of Washington, Michael Davitt of Silver Spring, Brian Davitt of Manchester...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Ronald Rodney Davitt.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 12/21/2003; 700+ words
; ...the medley relay. Mr. Davitt attended the University...California at Berkeley. Mr. Davitt returned to Bloomington...their first son, Jeffrey Michael was born. Ron and his...by his sons, Jeffrey Michael and Terence Guy (Lisa...Sean and Christopher Davitt; his granddaughters...
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Davitt--Land Warrior: Kevin Haddick Flynn looks back at the life and times of radical Michael Davitt as Ireland remembers the centenary of his death on May 31st.(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...was largely thanks to one man, Michael Davitt, and to the Land League that he...protest escalated into the Land War. Davitt was born in 1846 in Mayo. His Catholic...poor Irish immigrant community, Davitt grew up. The boy had had only a...
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 "Naperville Sun, The (IL)")
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Davitt in, Tableriou out as candidates for board
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL); 12/13/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...board of education. Michael Davitt, co-chairman of Naperville...ruffled some feathers," Davitt said. "But that's...how things change." Davitt is the eighth community...Price, Mangala Salvi, Michael Jaensch, Ed Rivas and...
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Michael Davitt in a league of his own
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 5/26/2009; ; 700+ words
; May 26th, 1887: MICHAEL DAVITT, the founder of the Land...when he was a child. Mr Davitt at Strade Having heard...boycotters" expected to greet Davitt, the writer decided to...been the birthplace of Michael... In the immediate...
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Mary in tribute to Davitt.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 4/13/2006; 424 words
; ...yesterday to mark the centenary of Michael Davitt's death. At the start of a two...in honour of Land League founder Davitt in Hasling-den, Lancashire...the Irish Democratic League Club. Davitt was born in 1846 near Foxford...
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EUR11k for portrait of Davitt.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 6/1/2006; 388 words
; ...A PORTRAIT of Irish rebel Michael Davitt lying in state was sold for...100th year since the death of Davitt, a typical figure in Irish...close relationship with both Michael and his wife Mary. A second...CAPTION(S): REBEL: Davitt
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Davitt, Michael
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Davitt, Michael (1846–1906), nationalist...tenant farmer of Straide, Co. Mayo, Davitt spent his childhood and youth in Haslingden...of‐leave, December 1877, Davitt became an architect of the New Departure...
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Michael Davitt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Michael Davitt , 1846-1906, Irish revolutionary and...English for his revolutionary activities. Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell were the leading...Influenced by the theories of Henry George , Davitt broke with Parnell over the question of...
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Ladies' Land League
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Ladies' Land League ( LLL ), set up in 1881 at Michael Davitt 's invitation to run the Land War in the event of its...of them from middle‐class backgrounds. Davitt claimed later that the LLL were ‘honester...
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Land League
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...Ireland. It was founded in 1879 by an ex- FENIAN , Michael DAVITT , to secure reforms in the land-holding system. With...government declared the Land League illegal and imprisoned Davitt and Parnell. Branches of the League were formed in...
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Parnell, Anna
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...activism. The Parnell women were active in Irish‐American political circles in the 1860s and 1870s. Michael Davitt asked Anna to come back to Ireland to head a Ladies' Land League early in 1881. Anna proved a fearless leader...
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