Ireland
The Emerald Isle
Daniel O'Connell is referred to as the Liberator or the Emancipator and was a Irish political leader who campaigned for Catholic Emancipation, as Roman Catholics were forbidden to sit in Westminster as a Member of Parliament, and to repel the Act of Union that combined Great Britain with Ireland. |
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O'Connell Street is Dublin's main thoroughfare and was renamed in 1924 to honor Daniel O'Connell. |
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The two phtographs directly below are details of the O'Connell monument and the bottom two were photographed from the bridge that bears the name of Daniel O'Connell.  |
The colonnaded building in the background is the General Post Office, which served as headquarters for the leaders of the 1916 Uprising.  |
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