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Reminiscences of Daniel O'Connell: During the Agitations of the Veto, Emancipation, (Classics of Irish History)
William Cook Taylor
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Description for Reminiscences of Daniel O'Connell: During the Agitations of the Veto, Emancipation, (Classics of Irish History)
Paperback. Editor(s): Maume, Patrick. Series: Classics of Irish History. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 186 x 120 x 15. Weight in Grams: 163.
Soon after Daniel O'Connell's death, Taylor published (as 'A Munster Farmer') this short account of the Liberator's life, drawing on his personal memories and on articles he had written for the Athenaeum in the 1840s. It includes eyewitness accounts of O'Connell's appearance as he walked through the streets of Dublin. Taylor shows personal sympathy for O'Connell as the leader of oppressed people, but he also sees his talents as distorted by the experience of oppression and by a conservative upbringing, and claims that his abusive and truculent oratory did as much to retard Catholic Emancipation as his tactical leadership did ... Read more
Soon after Daniel O'Connell's death, Taylor published (as 'A Munster Farmer') this short account of the Liberator's life, drawing on his personal memories and on articles he had written for the Athenaeum in the 1840s. It includes eyewitness accounts of O'Connell's appearance as he walked through the streets of Dublin. Taylor shows personal sympathy for O'Connell as the leader of oppressed people, but he also sees his talents as distorted by the experience of oppression and by a conservative upbringing, and claims that his abusive and truculent oratory did as much to retard Catholic Emancipation as his tactical leadership did ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Univ College Dublin Pr Dublin
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Classics of Irish History
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781904558255
SKU
V9781904558255
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About William Cook Taylor
William Cooke Taylor (1800-1849), son of a Youghal manufacturer of Cromwellian descent, was one of the most significant liberal-Unionist commentators of the first half of the nineteenth century. Patrick Maume is a researcher with the Dictionary of Irish Biography, the author of The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life, 1891-1918 (Dublin: 1999) and he has edited several titles in the Classics ... Read more
Reviews for Reminiscences of Daniel O'Connell: During the Agitations of the Veto, Emancipation, (Classics of Irish History)
"Taylor's style is engaging, his controversy may irk but his connection to the times is unique." Books Ireland Feb 2005 "University College Dublin Press has now published over thirty 'Classics of Irish History'. These contemporary accounts by well known personalities of historical events and attitudes have an immediacy that conventional histories do not have. Introductions by modern ... Read more