The Hungarian Revolution received extensive attention in The Nation, a newspaper founded in the 1840s by members of the Young Ireland movement that quickly gained widespread readership. Support for the Revolution was pronounced in The Nation in 1849, with strong identifications made between the struggle for Irish and Hungarian political independence. Reprinting articles on the topic from the English press, the newspaper’s engagement with the Hungarian Revolution was more than mere propaganda. The transnational complexities of this interest in Hungary reveal themselves in a number of aspects. The Nation identified Croatia’s opposition to Hungary as akin to Protestant loyalist opposition to Irish nationalism in Ulster. Yet the newspaper also gave attention to some Catholic nationalist sympathy for Croatia in opposition to the Hungarian Revolution. Like the exiled Young Ireland rebel, John Mitchel, The Nation expressed deep admiration for the exiled leader, Lajos Kossuth, but feelings changed in response to Kossuth’s public speeches in England during his short time there before travelling to America in 1851. The Nation relayed the heated dispute that broke out in The Times in the years immediately following the defeat of Hungary, accommodating sympathetic and critical views of Kossuth. The appearance of these letters in The Nation illustrate how a transnational dimension—the Hungarian Revolution as an example for Irish nationalists—complicates the ideological character of nationalism in Ireland during the mid-nineteenth century.