Seahawkfan80":193tfupo said:
Wonder where the history of Oconnell works into it. I have seen the deer in the coats of arms for the family.
O'Connell, means descendant of Conal
Ireland's most famouse O'Connell is Irish politician of the 17 and 1800's Daniel O'Connell. He campaigned for Catholics to have the right to sit at the British Parliament at Westminster (and wider equality for Catholics in general). He also tried (unsuccessfully) to repeal The Act of Union, passed in 1801 which merged Britain and Ireland, through mass demonstrations which often numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
Also, Dublin's main street is called O'Connell street.
This is the centre of O'Connell street, pictured is the Millennium Spire, which is 121 meters tall, and the General Post Office, the headquarters of the Irish Post Office and a key sight of the 1916 Rebellion, termed the Easter Rising. You see those pillars in front? If you stand near them you can still see the bullet holes from the fighting of said rebellion (often termed the victorious failure, as despite the rebels being heavily defeated, it represented a key change in public opinion, toward more people wanting an independent Ireland.
Another of O'Connell street's attractions is the Savoy Cinema, Ireland's oldest cinema, opened in 1929.
History drawl over
