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Title: Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious; edited by W. C.
Taylor.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
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++++ British Library La bonninie re de beaumont, Gustave Auguste
de; Taylor, William Cooke; 1839. 2 vol.; 12 . 601.g.29.
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.
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