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This common Orange toast being as new to most of the passengers as it was to myself, caused much astonishment among us, and out of pure mischief I stood up and cried out: "Ladies and Gentlemen fill your glasses a bumper. Mr Goodwin! No heel taps! To the greatest man Ireland ever produced." Mr Goodwin drank it with the rest and then asked whom I meant. When I told him Daniel O'Connell, he dashed his glass to the ground and ever after looked upon me as a Roman, a Jesuit and an enemy.////'((TLM-P, Draft memoirs of a Voyage from London to Sydney on the 'Roxburgh Castle', MLMSS6576, copied from Praed papers, Oxley Library.))\\ | This common Orange toast being as new to most of the passengers as it was to myself, caused much astonishment among us, and out of pure mischief I stood up and cried out: "Ladies and Gentlemen fill your glasses a bumper. Mr Goodwin! No heel taps! To the greatest man Ireland ever produced." Mr Goodwin drank it with the rest and then asked whom I meant. When I told him Daniel O'Connell, he dashed his glass to the ground and ever after looked upon me as a Roman, a Jesuit and an enemy.////'((TLM-P, Draft memoirs of a Voyage from London to Sydney on the 'Roxburgh Castle', MLMSS6576, copied from Praed papers, Oxley Library.))\\ |
{{https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/St_Patricks_Cathedral_%28Daniel_O%27Connell_Statue%29.jpg/220px-St_Patricks_Cathedral_%28Daniel_O%27Connell_Statue%29.jpg}}//Statue of [[wp>Daniel_O'Connell|Daniel O'Connell]], known as The Liberator of Ireland, outside St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.\\ | {{https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/St_Patricks_Cathedral_%28Daniel_O%27Connell_Statue%29.jpg/220px-St_Patricks_Cathedral_%28Daniel_O%27Connell_Statue%29.jpg}}//Statue of the object of TLM-P's toast, [[wp>Daniel_O'Connell|Daniel O'Connell]], known as The Liberator of Ireland, outside St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.\\ |
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TLM-P's daughter [[rosa_praed|Rosa]] Praed also worked for Irish home rule at a time when that was a radical act.\\ | TLM-P's daughter [[rosa_praed|Rosa]] Praed also worked for Irish home rule at a time when that was a radical act.\\ |