Life also issued Personal Recollections of the late Daniel OConnell (1848); Ireland and her Agitators (1857); How the Union Robs Ireland (1873), and Eighty-Five Years of Irish History (1886); also posthum. A Life Spent for Ireland, being selections from the Journals of the Late W. J. ONeill Daunt, ed. by His Daughter (1896); served as paid secretary to Home Govt. Assoc. at salary of £400, acting as intermediary with Archb. Paul Cullen; also, d. 29 June, 1894, at Kilcasan [vars. Kilashin; Kilcaskin], Co. Cork, to which he retired in 1874. JMC DIW DIH IF MKA RAF [ top ] Works Commentary, Ireland and Her Agitators (Dublin 1845); Letter [on] the Repeal of the Union (1846); Personal Recollections of ... OConnell (1848); Catechism of the History of Ireland (1870); Eighty-five years of Irish History (1886); Essay on Ireland (1888); A Life Spent for Ireland, Being Selections from the Journals of the late W. J. ONeill Daunt, ed. by his dg. [Alice I. ON. Daunt] (1896) [facs. rep. 1979; var. 1972], x+xx+420pp.; port. [ top ] Commentary [ top ] David Cairns & Shaun Richards, Writing Ireland, colonialism, nationalism and culture (Manchester 1988), regarding D. J. [sic] ONeill Daunt, On the same page as Thomas Daviss exhortation to let no patriot Protestant come and go uncheered, Daunt wrote an exposé of the Protestant proselytisers at Ventry, These so-called religious societies, whose practical operation is to excite the bigoted anti-Catholic landlords to persecute their Catholic tenantry for conscience sake; to induce the starving, the miserable, and the destitute, to practise an external conformity with Protestantism for the sake of whatever they can get from the distributors of pious bribes; and finally to mar the union of all Irishmen for national purposes, by scattering among them religious dissension; We beg leave ... to protest against the supposition that there lurks in our [The Nations] liberal policy one iota of indifferentism. On the contrary, if religion be worth having at all it is worth living for and if necessary dying for. (W. J. ONeill Daunt, The Nation, 13 May 1842). [ top ] Tom Garvin, OConnell and Irish Political Culture, in Daniel OConnell, Political Pioneer, ed. Maurice R OConnell (Inst. Publ. Relations 1991), pp.7-12, Garvin quotes as passage from W. J. ONeill Daunt, Ireland and Her Agitators (Dublin 1845), pp.239-40, outlining the organisational basis of OConnells Repeal Movement in the parishes. .. the priest tells his guest the effective strength of the district, availing himself, in detail, of the local information possessed by the parishioners, or the neighbouring clergy, who have assembled at [the priests] house. It is then ascertained who will work; who will undertake the duty of Repeal Warden; who will collect the Repeal rent; and who will assume the charge of particular ploughlands, if in the country, or wards, if in the town. The obstacles are also canvassed; the hostility of Lord so-and-so or of Captain -, his agent, who swears he will eject every tenant who gives sixpence to any of OConnells devices! ... The problem is speedily solved. What need Lord A or Squire B know about the tenants contributions? [11] [ top ] D. George Boyce, Nationalism in Ireland, London: Routledge 1982): William Joseph Daunt ONeill deplored the contemptible indifference of the Irish to their ancient national language and, while accepting the need to learn English as a utility measure, he was disgusted when a young man or woman addressed in him in Irish answered I dont ondherstand Irish or I has no Irish. (Life Spent for Ireland, pp.385, 391; here p.232.) [ top ] References
[ top ] Brian McKenna, Irish Literature, 1800-1875: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1978), lists novels, The Wife Hunter, by the Moriarty Family, ed. [pseud.] Denis Ignatius Moriarty (Philadelphia 1838); The Husband Hunter ... do. (1839); Innisfoyle Abbey, a tale of modern times by D.I.M. (1840); Hugh Talbot, a tale of the Irish confiscations of the 17th c. (1846); The Gentleman in Debt (1851). Also A Life Spent for Ireland, Being selections from the journals of the late W. J. ONeill Daunt, ed. by his dg. [Alice I. ON. Daunt] (1896) [port.]
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[ top ] Act of Union (Jan. 1801): The motive of the government was an intolerance of Irish prosperity. They hated Ireland with intense fierceness, from ancient national prejudice. Pitt also had his own peculiar quarrel with the Irish parliemant, from its opposition to his view on the regency question in 1789; and the growth of Ireland in happiness, in greatness, in prosperity, in domestic harmony, and consequent strength, was altogether insupportable to our jealous English foes [...]. (Cathecism of the history of Ireland: ancient and Modern, Dublin 1844, p.133; quoted in James Kelly, The Act of Union: its origin and background, in Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts and Consequences of the Act of Union, ed. Dáire Keogh & Kevin Whelan, Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001, p.46.) [ top ] Notes Michael McCarthy (Nonconformist Treason, 1912), quotes W. J. D. O'Neill: My own experience [...] coincides with that of every Irish Protestant who has thrown himself on the Catholic people. McCarthy comments: Irish Protestants, happily, are not prepared to row in Mr MacNeills galley. (MacNeill, Times, 16 Feb. 1912; McCarthy, p. 9; see supra.) [ top ] |