My Darling Danny: Letters from Mary O'Connell to Her Son Daniel, 1830-1832

by Mary O'Connell and Erin Bishop

On May 9, 1830, fourteen year-old Daniel O'Connell Jr., son of the Liberator, left his comfortable home in Dublin to attend the Jesuit college at Clongowes Wood in County Kildare. Thus began a three-year correspondence between Danny Jr. and his mother, Mary O'Connell. Bursting with love and affection, illness and death, politics and scandal, these letters allow a brief glimpse at the relationship between mother and son in nineteenth-century Ireland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859181732
• ISBN13: 9781859181737
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.6"