plebescite

Updated: June 1, 2025

He was an occasional contributor to the Nation from 1844 to 1848 and in June of that year, on the eve of the insurrection, formally joined Young Ireland. On the revival of the Nation in 1849 he joined Duffy in its editorship. Son of the King of Holland, nephew of the great Napoleon, President of the second Republic and, after the coup d'etat and the plebescite, Emperor of France.

Michael Doheny - The Felon's Track: History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading: Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848

True, it talked a great deal before it ventured upon anything strange or new, referred constantly to the tax rate and ran no risks, but at the time of which we write it had decided to take a plebescite upon the matter of Local Option and, a little later, the council wished to go so far as to present Andrew MacCandless, who had served them five times as mayor, with an address and a purse of fifty dollars.

Isabel Ecclestone Mackay - Up the Hill and Over