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O'Connell

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O'Con·nell  (-knl), Daniel Known as "the Liberator." 1775-1847.
Irish political leader. He founded the Catholic Association (1823) and worked tirelessly for Catholic emancipation and reform of the Irish government.
O'Connell [əʊˈkɒnəl]
n
(Biographies / O'Connell, Daniel (1775-1847) M, Irish, POLITICS: nationalist leader, POLITICS: orator) Daniel. 1775-1847, Irish nationalist leader and orator, whose election to the British House of Commons (1828) forced the acceptance of Catholic emancipation (1829)


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To illustrate the effect of slavery on the white man,--to show that he has no powers of endurance, in such a condition, superior to those of his black brother,--DANIEL O'CONNELL, the distinguished advocate of universal emancipation, and the mighti- est champion of prostrate but not conquered Ireland, relates the following anecdote in a speech delivered by him in the Conciliation Hall, Dublin, before the Loyal National Repeal Association, March 31, 1845.
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sez I; 'thin I'm O'Connell the Dictator, an' by this you will larn to kape a civil tongue in your rag-box.
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Wasn't it Dan O'Connell who said that if a man was born in a stable it didn't make him a horse?
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