What year was the founder of the Friend of Ireland born?
Friends of Ireland (U.S. Congress) The Congressional Friends of Ireland, or Friends of Ireland, is an organization in the United States Congress that was founded in 1981 by Irish-American politicians Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Daniel Moynihan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland.
David James O'Donoghue David James O'Donoghue ("D.J. O'Donoghue") (22 July 1866 in Chelsea, London – 27 June 1917 was an Irish biographer and editor. He attended a Catholic school and furthered his own education at the British Museum. He began his journalistic work by writing for the Dublin papers upon subjects relating to Irish music, art, and literature. A founder-member of the Irish Literary Society in London, he was also vice president of the National Literary Society, Dublin, and the compiler of a biographical dictionary, "The Poets of Ireland" (1891–93; revised edition, 1912), with entries on 2,000 authors. He published also: