ABSTRACT
For the large majority of persons now living in Great Britain, O’Connell has come to be nothing but a name. A name, it is true, with some vesture of awe and suspicion hanging round it, like a ghost; a name with some lingering capacity to make us feel uncomfortable; yet in the main a name only, like Chatham, or like Strafford. But, for the small proportion of those now inhabiting the island, and for all who were breathing and moving upon it, ὅσσ᾽ ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἐπιπνει τε καὶ ἕρπει
