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Son of Irish immigrants who settled in Philadelphia, where he was born in 1831. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Minnesota 1863-1869 and a member of the Minnesota Senate 1874-1894. He died in 1901 in Minneapolis.

Some of his writings are famous:

• Atlantis : the Antediluvian World (1882)
• Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel (1883)
• Cæsar's column (1890);
  translated to Swedish as Världens undergång : en roman från det tjugonde århundradet (Stockholm, 1891) also published as Cæsars kolonn (Chicago, 1891) and Civilisationens undergång (Malmö, 1892);
  has been compared to Edward Bellamy's Looking backward (1888)
• The Golden Bottle or the Story of Ephraim Benezet of Kansas (1892);
  translated to Swedish as Den gyldene flaskan eller berättelsen om Ephraim Benezet från Kansas (1893)

Links

• Ignatius L. Donnelly, English Wikipedia
• Ignatius Donnelly, deutsche Wikipedia
• Ignatius Donnelly, svenska Wikipedia
• Ignatius Donnelly, suomeksi Wikipedia
• Ignatius Donnelly, English Wikisource
• Donnelly, Ignatius, Project Gutenberg

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