CORRESPONDENCE OF DANIEL O'CONNELL THE LIBERATOR. by O'CONNELL, Daniel. Edited with notices of his life and times by W. J. Fitzpatrick.:

London, John Murray, 1888.. 2 volumes, complete set, FIRST EDITION 1888. 8vo, 230 x 140 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, portrait frontispiece, pages: 538 plus (2) adverts; 464 including index, plus 28 adverts dated 1888, in the original publisher's blind stamped cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, dark green endpapers. Just very slight wear to head and tail of spine, minute nick to cloth on upper hinge of Volume II, neat name on endpapers, title page foxed in Volume I, prelims slightly foxed in Volume II, Volume II unopened. A very good bright tight set. Daniel O'Connell (1775–1847) known as The Liberator or The Emancipator, was Ireland's predominant political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century. He campaigned for Catholic Emancipation - the right for Catholics to sit in the Westminster Parliament, denied for over 100 years - and Repeal of the Union between Ireland and Great Britain. He is remembered in Ireland as the founder of a non-violent form of Irish nationalism, and for the channelling of Irish politics by the mobilisation of the Catholic community as a political force, with the help of the clergy. THESE ARE HEAVY BOOKS AND WILL REQIURE EXTRA POSTAGE. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.