Denny Lane (4 December 1818 – 29 November 1895) was an Irish businessman and nationalist public figure in

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, and in his youth a

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.Cork City Gaol Although a Catholic, he graduated from the mainly Protestant

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, where he joined the

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, became a friend of

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and Thomas Davis, and moved in the circle from which the Young Ireland movement sprang. He was

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from

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. Under the pen name "Domhnall na Glanna" or "Domhnall Gleannach", he wrote Irish nationalist and romantic lyrics which were published in ''

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'' in the 1840s, the best known being "Carraigdhoun" (or "Lament of the Irish Maiden") and "Kate of Araglen". Lane and his college classmate

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were the most prominent Young Irelanders in Cork, and were interned in

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after the

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on his 1849 Irish tour met Lane on 17 July, describing him as a "fine brown Irish figure, Denny; distiller – ex-

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er; frank, hearty, honest air; like

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a little". Lane took over his father's distillery in Cork and later started several industrial businesses near the city, with mixed success. He took an interest in technology and industrial innovation. He was on the boards of the Macroom Railway Company and the Blackrock and Passage Railway Company, and also involved in Cork's

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, and Literary & Scientific and Historical & Archaeological societies.Gwynn 1949, p.28 He stood for Parliament in the 1876 Cork City by-election, but the

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vote was

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with John Daly, so that unionist William Goulding was elected. He died at his home on Cork's

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in November 1895, aged 77.

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Denny Lane, Drawing by Henry Jones/Thaddeus
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