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In 1843, Friedrich Engels accused Daniel O’Connell of ‘miserable petty middle class objectives … [which] were at the bottom of all the shouting and the agitation for the Repeal’.1 In 1962, Eric Hobsbawn described O’Connell as ‘a moderate middle class autonomist’.2 More recently, two historians, Emmet Larkin and Kevin Whelan, have advanced striking hypotheses, which, if established by empirical local studies, would confirm the judgement of Beaumont and Engels and would bear out Hobsbawn’s assessment of O’Connell in the context of European history. |
