Passing of a giant: Maurice O'Connell, 1922-2005.(Biography)

From: Irish Literary Supplement | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Lyne, Gerard J. | Copyright information

MAURICE R. O'CONNELL was a great-great-grandson of Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator. He was the third son of Maurice C. O'Connell and Emily (nee O'Connell) who was a kinswoman of her husband. Maurice C. O'Connell was adopted by the owner of Derrynane, his uncle Daniel ("Deaf Dan") O'Connell, from whom around 1920 he inherited the house and estate, which at that period consisted of some 13,000 acres, much of it mountain and bog. This adoption and inheritance replicated in uncanny fas...

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