Mutual admiration: Anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass and his connections to Daniel O’Connell and Ireland
O’Connell introduced him as the ‘black O’Connell of the United States’
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Erase me up: An Post omits Brian McFadden from Westlife stamp
Original member not included in series of stamps marking 25 years of boyband
Ireland must stay true to human rights commitment as envisioned by Daniel O’Connell 200 years ago - Martin
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Ireland is in an adolescent stage where everything that smacks of Old Ireland is embarrassing
John Henry Newman’s legacy has fallen victim to the new orthodoxy that there is nothing good at all in Catholicism
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Daniel O’Connell: A ‘coward’ with a complicated legacy
Early 20th century republicans revered his contemporary critics but their grandparents lived through the era of O’Connell as ‘the Liberator’ and champion of Catholic emancipation
The parallels between Nelson Mandela and Daniel O’Connell are many
Both were extraordinary leaders who gave their oppressed followers a sense of individual worth and national identity
Daniel O’Connell would have enjoyed his life being celebrated 250 years on, says historian
The Liberator’s ancestral home in Kerry will hold a number of events from Wednesday to mark his anniversary
TV aerial in Daniel O’Connell stamp is a ‘visual signal’ to the modern age, not AI, says An Post
Artist David Rooney says he deliberately included a modern image in the 19th-century Dublin scene
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Ireland has a proud history of opposing anti-Semitism
Outrage at the collective torture of Gaza is linked to our historical opposition to oppression
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Daniel O’Connell lies in a hero’s grave, his wife Mary in an overgrown tomb
Ireland has shown due respect to Daniel O’Connell. But where is the respect for his wife?
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