"Good God! what a brute man becomes when ignorant and oppressed! Oh, Liberty, what horrors are perpetrated in thy name! May every virtuous revolutionist remember the horrors of Wexford!"
— Daniel O'Connell

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Journal entry referring to the recent 1798 Irish Rebellion (2 January 1799), quoted in Arthur Houston, Daniel O'Connell: His Early Life, and Journal, 1795 to 1802 (1906), p. 236