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Daniel O'Connell

Data de nascimento: 6. Agosto 1775
Data de falecimento: 15. Maio 1847
Outros nomes:Daniel O'Connel

Daniel O'Connell ; muitas vezes referida como O Libertador, ou O Emancipador, foi um líder nacionalista irlandês da primeira metade do século XIX. Ele fez campanha para a Emancipação Católica — incluindo o direito dos católicos de se sentar no Parlamento de Westminster, negado por mais de 100 anos — e a revogação do Ato de União que combinou a Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda. Existe uma estátua de Daniel na cidade de Dublin, na Irlanda.

Citações Daniel O'Connell

„Nada pode ser politicamente certo se for moralmente errado.“

— Daniel O'Connell

„The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood“

— Daniel O'Connell
Written in his Journal, Dec 1796, and one of O'Connell's most well-known quotes. Quoted by O'Ferrall, F., Daniel O'Connell, Dublin, 1981, p. 12

„There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations…. What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.“

— Daniel O'Connell
Letter to T.M. Ray, 1839, on English attitudes to Ireland (O’Connell Correspondence, Vol VI, Letter No. 2588).

„Good God, what a brute man becomes when ignorant and oppressed. Oh Liberty! What horrors are committed in thy name! May every virtuous revolutionist remember the horrors of Wexford!“

— Daniel O'Connell
Written in his Journal, 2nd Jan 1799, referring to the recent 1798 Rebellion. Quoted from Vol I, p. 205, of O'Neill Daunt, W. J., Personal Recollections of the Late Daniel O'Connell, M.P., 2 Vols, London, 1848.

„How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors...“

— Daniel O'Connell
O’Connell’s Correspondence, Letter No 700, Vol II

„No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation’s heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.“

— Daniel O'Connell
Letter to Bishop Doyle, 1831 (O’Connell Correspondence, Vol IV, Letter No. 1860).

„The principle of my political life …. is, that all ameliorations and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible means, or if they could be got by forcible means, such means create more evils than they cure, and leave the country worse than they found it.“

— Daniel O'Connell
Writing in The Nation (Irish newspaper), 18 November, 1843.

„My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.“

— Daniel O'Connell
July 1812, aged 37, reflecting on the failure to secure equal rights or Catholic Emancipation for Catholics in Ireland. Quoted from Vol I, p. 185, of O'Connell, J. (ed.) The Life and Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, 2 Vols, Dublin, 1846)

„Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men“

— Daniel O'Connell
from his speech in Mallow, County Cork

„No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.“

— Daniel O'Connell
O’Connell recalling the spirited conduct of the Irish soldiers in Wellington’s army, at the Monster meeting held at Mullaghmast. Envoi, Taking Leave of Roy Foster, by Brendan Clifford and Julianne Herlihy, Aubane Historical Society, Cork.pg 16