The Irish Abolitionist: Daniel O'Connell

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.