ARTHUR O'CONNOR was an Irish revolutionary whose historical
importance has been vastly underappreciated. He was the most
important leader of the United Irishmen, the powerful conspiracy
that culminated in the Rebellion of 1798. Although that uprising
ended in failure, it was a watershed event in Irish history that
left an important legacy of revolutionary precedent for later
generations of Irish republicans and nationalists. The conflict in
Ireland that persists to the present can be traced in an unbroken
line to the war between the British government and the United Irish
army in 1798.
Although Arthur O'Connor has not become an icon of romantic
legend in Ireland, his revolutionary career was full of color,
drama, and controversy. He was a skilled conspirator and a
charismatic orator who was capable of charming the likes of Charles
James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Many
of his allies expected-and his rivals feared-that O'Connor would
have become Bonaparte's anointed king of Ireland if the French had
succeeded in driving the British out.
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