The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09

nalT Oh his taLnOllc IolIOW COunCIyu6n,
around whose limbs the penal chains
were still clanking, He threw himself
into the movement with all the ardor
and enthusiasm of youth, and had no
small share in bringing about that con-
dition of public opinion which COM
PEELED the Duke of Wellington to tell his
iiege sovereign, King George, that His
Majesty should choose between civil
war and Catholic Emancipation.
When the Catholic Relief Act was
passed, the Irish people inaugurated a
struggle against the payment Of tithes.
Into this movement, too, ONE elll Daunt
entered with his characteristic earnest
ness. and fought out the issue success
fully to the end. He had now attained
such an important place in the councils
to the nation that he was in 1882 returned
as member for the town of Mallow to
the British Parliament
DAUNT AS A REPEALER,
When Daniel O'ConnelI, 10 1841,
started the r. peal Association, O'Nelll
Daunt was one Of the first public men
to lend the Tribune helping hand.
Whell the movement assumed extraor
oina7y dimensions, O'Connell appointed
him one of It's four provincial directors
O'NeiN Daunt's directorate extended
over Leinster, John O'Connell being
director for Copnaught, Maurice O'Con-
neil for munster, and Tom Steele for
Ulster. The names Of the four direc-
tors, with those OF O'Connell as presi~
dent, and OF Bay as secretary, are en-
graved on a plate of copper lodged in
the foundation stone of Cancellation
Hall. O'Nelll Daunt was, between ls42
and 1S45 an indefatigable organizer Of
the r. peal Association. In that capa-
city he paid several visits TO England,
where he convened meetings Of the
Irish who rallied in their thousands
under the banner Of RaDeal. Irish
readeas are sufficiently familiar with the
history of the collapse Of the Repeal
movement TO need any special comment
on the subject here. Suffice it to say
that neither O'Conneil's death, nor the
utter failure Of bis Struggle for autor~
Omy, nor the horrors OF the famine. nor
the subsequent despair and demoral1-
zation OF the people had any depressing
effect on the sangulne temperament OF
Mr. Daunt. When Gavan Duffy and
or
right agitation, they were ably seconded
by O'Neill Daunt in their efforts to re-
dress some Of the grievances Of the
Irish farmer, Unfortunately fo, the
movement. it fell into the hands OF
Keogh, Sadlier and the other bigwigs
of the infamous Brass Band. with the
result that the Irish people we're once
mere sold For mess Of Dottage. and
IrelanC's hopes were again doomed to
disappointment. O'Ne,Il Daunt, like
Gavan DUFFY, b. came SO d'sgusted with
the treacherv Of the Brass Band that
he retired from public life, and devoted
himself. to large extent. to the inter
ests Of his landed estates in Klcascan.
AN EssAY1sr AND NOVELIST.
This portion Of lis career, extending
from the early II ties down to the time
when the agitation for the dlsestabllsh-
ment of the so-called Irish Church com.
menced, was partly spaDt Id study and
literary labor. Among the works
which were then or subsequently, lssneJ
from his pen were his T. says ON Ire
land +" dealing with the legislative
union. the deadlv financial exploits Of
TIL. British Parliament in connection
with ireland, his "Ireland Since the
Union," explanatory OF the denlorable
results of provincalsm, and his last,
hut hv no means least, contribution to
IRISH his o,ical Userature entitled
'.Eigbt five years of Irish history
AHonIE RULER.
The dls-establishment of the Irish
Protestant Church. in the agitation for
which MIR Daunt took q prominent
rart, induced large number of Irish
Ptotpstants to revolt agalrst both Wblg
ana Tory. aud exasperated them into
estab'i ishing a Home Government AS
socia,lnn. This pOlicv on their part
was actuated by the belief that they
would receive tafrer play at the hands
of their Catholic fellow-count1Ymen in
College Green than they would at those
Of Englisbman at Westminster. The
late Isaac Butt was nominated presl-
dent of the new association, O'Neill
Daunt chairman of committees
A PATRIARCH IN PHYSIQUE.
NV earliest recollection of O,Nelll
Daunt dates hack some two decades
ago l remember seeing HIM ride In
occasionally TO the little town of Clona-
kitty. in the County Cork, from his resi-
dence in Kilcascap, near 3 NyneeD,
situated some miles awav. He looked
even then patriarch, his rugged and
wrink+ led features swept BY snow
", beard. and thick silverv locks
Fl IA 1"g over his shoulders. He kept
firm grip of the saddle, however, and
managed the reins with all the vlgnr OF
a youth and the dexterity of an accom-
plished hors4man. He sermed to me
then Il living nineteenth century repro
duction Of All Ollamh Of old lnnlsfal-
a type Of the venerable and scholarly
sages who dispensed Justice and dis
pensed 1T well and imDarti .llv, to our
Celtic fnrefathers. ONrlH Daunt's
cor stitutian has beer for over seventy
years q cOpDer fastened Ont: and TX