SNIPPET: "On February 8 Daniel O'CONNELL, the great Irish Parliamentary leader, made his last speech in the English House of Commons. Failing in health, O'CONNELL went to Italy. At Rome Pope Pius IX prepared a magnificent reception for him. Before he could reach the Eternal City, O'CONNELL died in his seventy-second year. When the body of O'CONNELL was buried at Glasnevin, it was followed to the grave by 50,000 mourners, among whom Orangemen and Ribbonmen walked side by side. In England O'CONNELL's death was regarded with a feeling akin to relief. There his persistent demands for "justice for Ireland" had come to be regarded with derision, bringing him the nickname of 'Big Beggarman.' -- "The Nineteenth Century and After ...," Edwin Emerson, Jr. and Marion Mills Miller, Vol. Two, (1906), P. F. Collier & Son, publishers, NY.

SNIPPET: "On February 8 Daniel O'CONNELL, the great Irish Parliamentary leader, made his last speech in the English House of Commons. Failing in health, O'CONNELL went to Italy. At Rome Pope Pius IX prepared a magnificent reception for him. Before he could reach the Eternal City, O'CONNELL died in his seventy-second year. When the body of O'CONNELL was buried at Glasnevin, it was followed to the grave by 50,000 mourners, among whom Orangemen and Ribbonmen walked side by side. All in shock here !! I didn't even know that the poor man was ill !!!! Stuart