Morgan O'Connell (27 August 1811 – 2 July 1875) was an Irish
Repeal Association
The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.
The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to ...
politician who was
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Kerry from the
1835 election until the
1852 election.
His father was John O'Connell, younger brother of
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel(I) O’Connell (; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilisation of Catholic Irelan ...
, the leader of the Repeal Association.
John's son was usually called Morgan John O'Connell to distinguish him from Daniel's son
Morgan O'Connell
Morgan O'Connell (31 October 1804 – 20 January 1885), soldier, politician and son of Daniel O'Connell, ''the Liberator of Ireland ''. He served in the Irish South American legion and the Austrian army. He was MP for Meath from 1832 until 1840 ...
, such a
patronymic
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Patronymics are used, b ...
being a common Irish practice. His mother Elizabeth Coppinger was descended from
Sir Walter Coppinger. He was "wild and extravagant" in his youth, and in middle age financial necessity made him practice at the
English bar
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.
His uncle William Coppinger died in 1862; O'Connell inherited an estate in
County Cork
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directly and another in
Kildysart
Kildysart, officially Killadysert (), is a large village in County Clare, Ireland and a civil and Roman Catholic parish by the same name that surrounds the village.
Location
The parish lies on the east border of the barony of Clonderalaw. It i ...
,
County Clare
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, after his mother died the next year. In 1865 he married Mary Anne Bianconi,
[O'Connell 189]
Vol.2 p.294
/ref>Charles Bianconi
Charles Bianconi (24 September 1786 – 22 September 1875) was an Italo-Irish entrepreneur. Sometimes described as the "man who put Ireland on wheels", he developed a network of horse-drawn coaches that became Ireland's "first regular public tran ...
;[O'Connell 189]
Vol.2 (facing p.316) Note D.
/ref> she remembered him as "a very handsome, tall, stout, jolly, fresh-looking man". Their only child, John O'Connell Bianconi,National Volunteers
The National Volunteers were the majority faction of the Irish Volunteers that sided with Irish Parliamentary Party leader John Redmond after the movement split over the question of the Volunteers' Ireland and World War I, role in World War I.
O ...
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1811 births
1875 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Kerry constituencies (1801–1922)
UK MPs 1835–1837
UK MPs 1837–1841
UK MPs 1841–1847
UK MPs 1847–1852
Morgan John
Irish Repeal Association MPs
Irish landlords
Members of the Bar of England and Wales
Irish barristers
19th-century Irish landowners