DANIEL O'CONNELL
DEATH OF LAST ASSOCIATE. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 5. Felix Morgan, the last associate of Daniel O’Connell, has died in County Down, at the age of 109. —A. and N.Z. Cable. Daniel O’Connell, the Irish “Lil jrator,” as he was called, was born i" 1775. and died in 1847. He ’ was a famous orator and politician, and a highly successful barrister. In Parliament he advocated the cause of Ireland with courage and audacity. His agitation for repeal was immensely popular with his countrymen, but famine and division did much to break his party up, and he died an old man at Genoa, having lost his grasp on the “Forward” movement in the land of his birth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19966, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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