THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

DANIEL O'CONNELL.

BY

WILLIAM FAGAN, ESQ., M.P.

VOL. I.

CORK:

JOHN O'BRIEN.

SIMPKIN, MARSHAL, & CO., LONDON.

T. LEMESURER, AND RICHARDSON & SON, DUBLIN.

OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH.

TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND.

FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN,

To you I dedicate this, my feeble effort to pourtray the Life and Times of the greatest man, that this, or any other country, ever produced-O'CONNELL-he, who first burst asunder the manacles that had bound you for centuries in religious thraldom; and afterwards struggled, with untiring assiduity, even to the latest moment of his existence, to restore your legislative independence, of which you were foully and fraudulently cheated. The first volume contains the history of his exertions for Catholic Emancipation; and you will find in it, many examples of the indomitable perseverance with which he toiled, and of the unceasing annoyances which his love.