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Daniel (I) O’Connell ( Irish: Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, [1] was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century.
Daniel O’Connell was a lawyer who became the first great 19th-century Irish nationalist leader. Compelled to leave the Roman Catholic college at Douai, France, when the French Revolution broke out, O’Connell went to London to study law, and in 1798 he was called to the Irish bar.
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May 28, 2019 · Daniel O'Connell was an Irish patriot who came to exert enormous influence on the relationship between Ireland and its British rulers during the first half of the 19th century. O'Connell, a gifted orator, and charismatic figure rallied the Irish people and helped secure some degree of civil rights for the long-oppressed Catholic ...
Daniel O'Connell (August 6, 1775 – May 15, 1847) (Irish: Dónal Ó Conaill), known as The Liberator, or The Emancipator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century. He passed the bar examination in 1798, among the first Catholics to qualify as a barrister.
The biographical entry for Daniel O'Connell, The Liberator, chief advocate of Catholic Emancipation during the early part of the 19th Century, from 'A Compendium of Irish Biography', by Alfred Webb, 1878
