The liberator : his life and times, political and social . ated his magnificent On one occasion when the family were eagerlydiscussing the topics of the day, and the respectivemerits of Burke and Grattan, OConnell, then only alad of nine years of age, was observed sitting in an 1 Speaking of his own early recollection, OConnell said : Myuncle used to get the Dublin Magazine at Carhen ; it usually con-tained the portrait of some remarkable person, with a biographicalnotice. I was always an ambitious fellow, and I often used to sayto myself, < I wonder will my visage ever appear in t
The liberator : his life and times, political and social . ated his magnificent On one occasion when the family were eagerlydiscussing the topics of the day, and the respectivemerits of Burke and Grattan, OConnell, then only alad of nine years of age, was observed sitting in an 1 Speaking of his own early recollection, OConnell said : Myuncle used to get the Dublin Magazine at Carhen ; it usually con-tained the portrait of some remarkable person, with a biographicalnotice. I was always an ambitious fellow, and I often used to sayto myself, < I wonder will my visage ever appear in the DublinMagazine. I knew at that time of no greater notoriety. In 1810,when walking through the streets soon after some meeting at whichI had attracted public notice, I saw a magazine in a shop-window,containing the portrait of Councillor OConnell, and I said tomyself with a smile, £ Here are my boyish dreams of glory I need not tell you that in 1810, I had long outgrown thatspecies of ambition.—Personal Recollections, vol. i. p. Fll make a stir in the fborld 43 arm-chair, silent and abstracted. He was asked by alady, who wondered at his silence, What he wasthinking of? His reply was characteristic : Ill make a stir in the world yet! Father OGrady was then the chaplain of theOConnell family, and prepared the boy for theSacraments. A curious anecdote is told of thisecclesiastic. He resided at Louvain during the warsof Marlborough, and from the troubled state of Flan-ders he was reduced to the deepest distress. Hebegged his way to the coast, hoping to meet somevessel whose captain might take him for charity toIreland. As he was trudging slowly and painfullyalong, he suddenly fell in with a band of of the robbers was a Kerryman, named DenisMahony, who, moved to compassion by the pennilesspoverty of the priest, and charmed wjjth the sound ofhis native tongue, gave him out of his own share ofplunder the means of returning to Ireland. God bemerci
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