Young Ireland

An energetic figure like Volodymyr Zelensky, for instance, evokes the 19th-century’s youthful nationalists and nationalisms — the Young Turks, Young Ireland.

After that, Jordan Larmour scored a hat-trick and a young Ireland team scored 40 second-half points to beat Italy 54-7.

The son of a wealthy Irish Catholic merchant and constitutional nationalist, he became a leading figure in the Young Ireland movement of the mid-1840s — a brilliant orator who was popularly known as “Meagher of the Sword” for a speech he gave on the theoretical justification of armed force against British rule.

After the failure of the Young Ireland uprising that summer, he was arrested and found guilty of treason; his death sentence was subsequently commuted, and he was sent to Tasmania, also known as Van Diemen’s Land, for life.

Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP Jamie Heaslip has expressed his pride at the determination of his young Ireland team-mates to keep Fiji scoreless on Saturday.