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Daniel O'Connell and the Repeal Year
1967
American Historical Review
Preface DANIEL O'CONNELL remains a neglected man of Victorian history, although he was the most discussed figure of his time. Members of the British Establishment despised this Irish demagogue. Their newspapers and periodicals described him as a mendacious, avaricious vulgarian agitating nationalism to collect contributions from ignorant and impoverished Irish peasants. The British public was told that O'Connell was the leader of a vast conspiracy dedicated to subverting the British
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