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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 -
RT @JoeHumphreys42 on Twitter
[Wollstonecraft]'s breakthrough work "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790) was ironically an attack on TCD grandee #EdmundBurke who she lambasted with a fair dose of anti-Irish sentiment and reverse sexism.
UCD's Katherine O’Donnell explains here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/was-ireland-s-most-prominent-philosopher-too-womanly-1.3498724
Link to Katherine O’Donnell's paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336239122_Effeminate_Edmund_Burke_and_the_masculine_voice_of_Mary_Wollstonecraft
The full thread https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeHumphreys42/status/1620820823673282560
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Re#Introduction with hashtags! I’m a #Romantodon pretending to be a #Victodon because I like all the #dinosaurs - I work on #Romantic writers like #Wollstonecraft, #Austen, and #Coleridge and also enjoy #Gothic fiction and #ChildrensLiterature - currently I’m working on taking #RomanticStudies from the #sublime to the #ridiculous, as a way of thinking about crises of #nature, #society, and #childhood as #collectives rather than individuals - I still mostly toot #CatPics #CatsOfMastodon