O'Connell, Daniel

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Irish lawyer and politician, known as ‘the Liberator’. In 1823 he formed the Catholic Association, to campaign for Catholic emancipation and the repeal of the 1801 Act of Union between Britain and Ireland. He achieved the first objective in 1829, but failed in the second.

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