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The Irish Abolitionist: Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O’Connell is remembered as the Liberator of Irish Catholics, but he also played a significant role in the movement to end slavery.

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CHRISTINE KINEALY,
Irish America magazine
Published Thursday, July 14, 2011, 12:42 PM
Updated Thursday, July 14, 2011, 1:03 PM

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joycean | Jul 14, 2011, 02:47 PM EDT
Good essay. David Adams, in his Irish Times article, Obama's Waffle Feeds Irish Taste for Fantasy," states that Obama's mention of Douglass." and O'Connell "finding common cause in repression [sic]" led his listeners to "believe that their far-off cousins stood shoulder to shoulder with African-Americans in their struggle for civil rights." Adams's comment shows he had no clue to what Obama was referring. O'Connell was not an Irish-American, and it was slavery, not 20th century civil rights,that the two men fought.

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