Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell
Early nineteenth-century Irish political figure remembered for his work on behalf of Irish Catholic rights and emancipation. He also fought to overturn an 1800 England and Ireland-unifying measure called the Acts of Union.
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 August 1775
CountryIreland
europe america giving
I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require – the restoration of our domestic parliament...
dream country heart
No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.
horse men dukes
The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
ignorance army suffering
There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.
morally
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.