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King Dan & the King’s man: Daniel O’Connell & Sir Walter Scott
Dan Mulhall compares 2 towering 19th-century figures: Ireland’s Daniel O’Connell & Scotland’s Sir Walter Scott. But where Scott helped preserve & define Scottish identity through history, literature & tradition, O’Connell was above all a practical political reformer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J94G6Utlek
#Scottish #Irish #history #literature #19thcentury #DanielOCOnnell #SirWalterScott
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He was a native Irish speaker but he discouraged the use of the language because he felt that English was the means of advancement. he insisted on addressing his meetings in English, sending interpreters out among the crowd to translate his words into Irish. He was described as having "indifference to the fate of the [Irish] language". 2/2
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Not only did Mary #Wollstonecraft visit Ireland and like it, she was an important influence on #DanielOConnell
A liberal who corresponded with Jeremy #Bentham for a time and tirelessly campaigned against slavery & for Catholic Emancipation, and Repeal, O'Connell sent his children to the school of Wollstonecraft's sister in Dublin.
Daniel O’Connell’s philosophical influences
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/15/modern-prometheus-oconnell/O'Connell as Frankenstein's monster
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw206038/Political-Frankensteins--Alarmed-at-the-progress-of-a-Giant-of-their-own-Creation -
For the night that’s in it: window in Daniel O’Connell’s home, Derrynane, Co. Kerry. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FuinneogFriday #Mastodaoine #Derrynane #Kerry #DanielOConnell #TheLiberator
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrynane_House -
Daniel O'Connell (Dónall Ó Conaill) was born on 6 August 1775 in Cahersiveen, County Kerry. Hailed in his time as The Liberator, he was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. O'Connell championed the rights and liberties of people throughout the world including those of peasants in India, Maoris in New Zealand, Aborigines in Australia and Jews in Europe.
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He was a native Irish speaker but he discouraged the use of the language because he felt that English was the means of advancement. He insisted on addressing his meetings in English, sending interpreters out among the crowd to translate his words into Irish. He was described as having "indifference to the fate of the [Irish] language". 2/2
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Daniel O'Connell (Dónall Ó Conaill) died on 15th May 1847 in Genoa, Italy. Hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. O'Connell championed the rights and liberties of people throughout the world including those of peasants in India, Maoris in New Zealand, Aborigines in Australia and Jews in Europe. 1/2
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A more typical ‘HB’ - this one is discussed in my new book ‘William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism’ and satirises the falling out of #WilliamSharmanCrawford and #DanielOConnell in 1837 #IrishHistory
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Daniel O'Connell (Dónall Ó Conaill) was born on 6 August 1775 in Cahersiveen, County Kerry. Hailed in his time as The Liberator, he was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. O'Connell championed the rights and liberties of people throughout the world including those of peasants in India, Maoris in New Zealand, Aborigines in Australia and Jews in Europe.
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Daniel O'Connell (Dónall Ó Conaill) died on 15th May 1847 in Genoa, Italy. Hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. O'Connell championed the rights and liberties of people throughout the world including those of peasants in India, Maoris in New Zealand, Aborigines in Australia and Jews in Europe.
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4 Feb: #DanielOConnell in 1830 became the first Roman Catholic to take his seat in the House of Commons in Westminster since the Test Acts of 1673 and 1678. https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/revolution/overview/catholicsprotestants/
O'Connell had defeated William Vesey-FitzGerald in a #Clare by-election on 5 July 1828, but could not take his seat until the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829 was passed https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/2015-parliament-in-the-making/get-involved1/2015-banners-exhibition/rachel-gadsden/1829-catholic-emancipation-act-gallery/
O'Connell was returned unopposed on 30 July 1830.
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For the night that’s in it: window in Daniel O’Connell’s home, Derrynane, Co. Kerry. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FuinneogFriday #Mastodaoine #Derrynane #Kerry #DanielOConnell #TheLiberator
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrynane_House -
For the night that’s in it: window in Daniel O’Connell’s home, Derrynane, Co. Kerry. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FuinneogFriday #Mastodaoine #Derrynane #Kerry #DanielOConnell #TheLiberator
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrynane_House -
For the night that’s in it: window in Daniel O’Connell’s home, Derrynane, Co. Kerry. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FuinneogFriday #Mastodaoine #Derrynane #Kerry #DanielOConnell #TheLiberator
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrynane_House -
For the night that’s in it: window in Daniel O’Connell’s home, Derrynane, Co. Kerry. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FuinneogFriday #Mastodaoine #Derrynane #Kerry #DanielOConnell #TheLiberator
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrynane_House
