Life
1831-1902; b. Wicklow, son of James Godkin [q.v.]; editor and author, History of Hungary (1853); special corr. for Times in Crimea, 1853-55; Hawaii, Philippines; denounced Tammany Hall; hon. DCL Oxford; Godkin Lectures in Harvard established in his memory. DIB DUB
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References
Justin McCarthy, gen. ed., Irish Literature (1904); selects extract from Problems of Modern Democracy.
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