"I was, I should explain, the manservant of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator of Ireland, the toast of continental Europe if not of London; and perhaps the most famous man of his time... This is my story: the narrative of how I travelled to my destiny as Mr. O'Connell journeyed to his death". So writes Duggan, manservant to Daniel O'Connell, Ireland's greatest politician of the 19th century. Duggan tells the story of O'Connell, allowing us to get to know this great figure and to share in his final days. At the end of his ...
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"I was, I should explain, the manservant of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator of Ireland, the toast of continental Europe if not of London; and perhaps the most famous man of his time... This is my story: the narrative of how I travelled to my destiny as Mr. O'Connell journeyed to his death". So writes Duggan, manservant to Daniel O'Connell, Ireland's greatest politician of the 19th century. Duggan tells the story of O'Connell, allowing us to get to know this great figure and to share in his final days. At the end of his career O'Connell decide to take a final trip to Italy, and Duggan accompanied him. The year is 1847 and the famine is raging in Ireland. O'Connell is feted as an icon of his age but in private is plagued by scruples and hallucinations and subjected to every violence of nineteenth-century medicine. Duggan, intimate witness, describes the disintegration of one of history's true giants. Duggans's Destiny is a carefully crafted historical novel of great feeling and insight.
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