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Nicholas Canny, 24 May 1990
The Emancipist: Daniel O’Connell, 1830-1847
by Oliver MacDonagh.
Weidenfeld, 372 pp., £20, October 1989,0 297 79637 2 Show More
by Oliver MacDonagh.
Weidenfeld, 372 pp., £20, October 1989,
“... in his own time. This particular biography calls for even greater respect because its author, Oliver MacDonagh, has established himself as the most incisive and (with the late F.S.L. Lyons) the most prolific Irish-born historian of his generation. The compound is preferred over the simple adjective to describe ... ”