Daniel O'Connell
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Daniel O'Connell, 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. His mobilisation of Catholic Ir
1834 portrait of O'Connell by George Hayter
Catholic Emancipation as a world upside down: held aloft, Daniel O'Connell promises wigs – symbol of Ascendancy rank and property – for "ye all." (Isaac Cruikshank 1789–1856)
The Repealer Repulsed, Belfast 1841
O'Connell's "chariot", now on display in Derrynane House
O'Connell Street
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O'Connell Street is a street in the centre of Dublin, Ireland, running north from the River Liffey. It connects the O'Connell Bridge to the south with Parnell Street to the north and is roughly split
Daniel O'Connell
…split the national movement that he had singularly led. Irish nationalists continued to dispute O'Connell's legacy — honoured in 1922 in the renaming of Dublin's principal thoroughfare. Biographers have suggested that his combination of confessional politics and liberal principle, which had early imitators in Germany, was a forerunner…
The O'Connell Monument. A memorial to 19th-century leader Daniel O'Connell by John Henry Foley, which stands at the entrance to the street
Sackville Street and Gardiner's Mall in the 1750s
Sackville Street in 1842
View of the Pillar and General Post Office c. 1830