O'Connell (II)
O'Connell (II) names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
O'Connell (II) DANIEL, called THE LIBERATOR OF IRELAND and THE GREAT GITATOR
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL, called THE LIBERATOR OF IRELAND and THE GREAT GITATOR, an Irish patriot; born in County Kerry, Ireland, Aug. 6, 1775. Educated at the Roman Catholic College of St. Omer, and the Irish seminary at Douay, a student of Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1794; was admitted to the bar in 1798; and speedily rose to a large and lucrative practice. In 1809, he became popularly known by his fervent advocacy of Catholic emancipation. In 1815, having in one of his diatribes stigmatized the corporation of Dublin as "beggarly," he D'Esterre was challenged by Alderman , and a hostile meeting took place in which the latter fell. He sat in the British DANIEL O'CONNELL House of Commons in 1828-1841, and be- : came Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1841. The return of the Conservatives to power was the signal for renewed political agitation. Repeal of the Union was the object sought, and O'Connell headed the movement. A monster meeting to be held at Clontarf, Oct. 8, 1843, was estopped by the government, and O'Connell sentenced to pay a fine of $10,000, and to be imprisoned one year. This judgment was shortly after reversed by the House of Lords. The return of the Whigs to power in 1846, and O'Connell's avowed adherence to that party, brought him into unpopularity and he retired from public life. He wrote "Memoirs of Ireland." He died in Genoa, Italy, May 15, 1847. JOSEPH. DENNIS O'CONNELL, American ecclesiastic. He was born at Charleston, S. C., and was educated at St. Charles' Seminary and St. Mary's College in his native city, and also in Rome. In 1877 he was given the degree of S. T. D. at the college of Propaganda. After being ordained he became secretary to Cardinal Gibbons and later head of the American College in Rome. Later he was made rector of the Catholic University of America, holding that position till he was consecrated auxiliary bishop of San Francisco in 1909. Since 1912 he has been bishop of Richmond, Va.
O'Connell (II) WILLIAM HENRY, CARDINAL
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM HENRY, CARDINAL. Catholic prelate. Born at Lowell, Mass., in 1859, he graduated as B. A. from Boston College in 1881, after which he entered the American College at Rome, where he was ordained priest in 1884. He was appointed rector of the American College in Rome in 1895, named domestic prelate in 1897, and consecrated bishop of Portland, Me., at St. John Lateran, Rome, ne, in 1901. In 1905 he was named assistant at the Pontifical Throne, and in the same year represented the Vatican at the court of the emperor of Japan, from whom he received the Grand Cordon of the Sacred Treasure. He was named archbishop of Constance and coadjutor with succession of Boston in 1906, and succeeded to the see of Boston in 1907, being made cardinal in 1911. In May, 1920, he represented the United States at the beatification in Rome of Oliver Plunkett.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 that Daniel O'Connell's great cause, "repeal of the Union," had failed and left him unpopular; within months of that volume appearing, the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 ended the Union he had campaigned against, and the Irish Free State came into being in 1922, with the six northern counties remaining in the United Kingdom. O'Connell's standing has held up: he is still the Liberator, Dublin's main thoroughfare bears his name, and Catholic emancipation in 1829 is still treated as his achievement, though modern historians stress his mass-movement organising and his refusal of violence more than the oratory the old accounts admired. Of the two living churchmen described, Denis J. O'Connell served as bishop of Richmond until 1926 and died in 1927; William Henry O'Connell remained cardinal archbishop of Boston until his death in 1944, a dominant figure in Irish-American Catholic life whose reputation was later complicated by scandals within his own household. Oliver Plunkett, whose 1920 beatification the cardinal attended, was canonised in 1975.
Written for this edition, 2026.