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| HOGAN'S STATUE OF O'CONNELL, CITY HALL, DUBLIN.- The great artist, whose genius has preserved for al time the figure, the lineament and the finest expression of the illustrious Daniel O'Connell had, evidently, in mind the poetical adjuration of Thomas Davis - Let his statue rise as tall and firm as a castle wall; On his broad brow let there be a type of Ireland's history: Pious, generous, deep and warm, strong and changeful as a storm; Let whole centuries of wrong upon his recollection throng - Strongbow's force and Henry's wile, Tudor's wrath and Stuart's guile, And iron Strafford's tiger jaws, and brutal Brunswick's penal laws; Not forgetting Saxon "faith," not forgetting Norman scaith, Not forgetting William's word, not forgetting Cromwell's sword! Surely, never was adjuration better obeyed, for "the marble speaks the passion of the Irish Tribune." The statue stands almsot upon the spot where O'Connell uttered his first speech against the Union, in 1800. |
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