Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Frederick William Conway (1782–1853) was an Irish journalist, newspaper founder and editor.Conway was probably born in Loughrea, County Galway, where his father ran a newspaper. His entire career was in journalism, becoming the editor of the Dublin Evening Post after 1800. In 1813, he founded the Dublin Political Review and in 1821, The Drama.Although Conway was a supporter of Catholic Emancipation, he incurred the wrath of Daniel O'Connell who nicknamed him "Castle Conway" in reference to a rumoured pension he received from the British Administration in Ireland based in Dublin Castle.He amassed a library of books, manuscripts and incunabula, the sale of which went on for twenty-five days after his death in Dublin, aged seventy-one (many of the books went to the library of Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) and other libraries in Ireland).. }
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- Frederick_William_Conway abstract "Frederick William Conway (1782–1853) was an Irish journalist, newspaper founder and editor.Conway was probably born in Loughrea, County Galway, where his father ran a newspaper. His entire career was in journalism, becoming the editor of the Dublin Evening Post after 1800. In 1813, he founded the Dublin Political Review and in 1821, The Drama.Although Conway was a supporter of Catholic Emancipation, he incurred the wrath of Daniel O'Connell who nicknamed him "Castle Conway" in reference to a rumoured pension he received from the British Administration in Ireland based in Dublin Castle.He amassed a library of books, manuscripts and incunabula, the sale of which went on for twenty-five days after his death in Dublin, aged seventy-one (many of the books went to the library of Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) and other libraries in Ireland).".