| Reminiscences of Daniel O'Connell Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cooke Taylor, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1904558259 ISBN-13: 9781904558255 Publisher: University College Dublin Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 941.508 |
| LCCN: 2005360086 |
| Series: Classics of Irish History |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 4.82" W x 7.32" (0.36 lbs) 140 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 to advance it. This edition also includes a review article by Taylor in the Athenaeum of books including Carleton's Famine novel, The Black Prophet, and a long article on 'Repeal Songs of Munster', considering O'Connellite street-ballads as a study in human folly. |