Denny Lane
Irish businessman and nationalist public figure (1818–1895)
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Denny Lane (4 December 1818 – 29 November 1895) was an Irish businessman and nationalist public figure in Cork city, and in his youth a Young Irelander.[1]
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Although a Catholic, he graduated from the mainly Protestant Trinity College, Dublin, where he joined the College Historical Society, became a friend of Charles Gavan Duffy and Thomas Davis, and moved in the circle from which the Young Ireland movement sprang.[2] He was called to the bar from Inner Temple.[1] Under the pen name "Domhnall na Glanna"[3] or "Domhnall Gleannach",[4] he wrote Irish nationalist and romantic lyrics which were published in The Nation in the 1840s, the best known being "Carraigdhoun" (or "Lament of the Irish Maiden") and "Kate of Araglen".[1][4] Lane and his college classmate Michael Joseph Barry were the most prominent Young Irelanders in Cork, and were interned in Cork City Gaol after the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848.[1][5] Thomas Carlyle on 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; like Alfred Tennyson a 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 the Macroom Railway Company and the Blackrock and Passage Railway Company, and also involved in Cork's School of Art, School of Music, and Literary & Scientific and Historical & Archaeological societies.[1][7] He stood for Parliament in the 1876 Cork City by-election, but the Home Rule vote was split with John Daly, so that unionist William Goulding was elected.[1]
He died at his home on Cork's South Mall in November 1895, aged 77.[1]
Bibliography
- Lane, Denny (1883). "Clerk Maxwell's 'Devil on Two Sticks'". Nature. 28 (709): 104. Bibcode:1883Natur..28..104L. doi:10.1038/028104c0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4140975.
- Lane, Denny (26 September 1885). "On the Elementary Principles of the Gas-Engine". Scientific American. 20 (508): 8109–12. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09261885-8109supp. ISSN 0036-8733. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- Lane, Denny (November 1885). "Then and Now. A Literary Retrospect. Part I". The Irish Monthly. 13 (149). Irish Jesuit Province: 607–616. JSTOR 20497332.
- Lane, Denny (December 1885). "Then and Now. A Literary Retrospect. Part II". The Irish Monthly. 13 (150). Irish Jesuit Province: 644–656. JSTOR 20497338.
- Lane, Denny (3 July 1886). "Gas Engineering and Modern Science". Scientific American. 22 (548 supp): 8750–8753. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican07031886-8750bsupp. ISSN 0036-8733. OCLC 5842229501.
- 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. JSTOR 20498152.
- 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. JSTOR 20498492.
- Lane, Denny (May 1893). "The Irish Industries Association". The Irish Monthly. 21 (239). Irish Jesuit Province: 237–241. JSTOR 20498514.