ALTHOUGH HE NEVER SET FOOT IN IRELAND, HE CONFIDENTLY PROCLAIMED HIS ETHNICITY By Marion R. Casey ‘No, he is not an Irishman. He was born in Ireland; but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse’ —Daniel O’Connell (referring to the duke of Wellington), Mullaghmast, 1843. Long ago O’Connell put his ... Read more
