CUSACK, Sister M.F. The Liberator His Life and Times, Political and Social. Illustrated. Kenmare Publications. [IN FINE MOROCCO BINDING]

New York: Sadleir, [1872]. Quarto. pp. xlviii, [2], 803. Full brown morocco. Upper cover elaborately decorated in gilt to a panel design, enclosing in the centre a gilt oval portrait of Daniel O’Connell, surrounded with portraits of Grattan, Burke, Curran and Doyle. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt with the four patriots at centre; moiré silk endpapers. All edges gilt. A very good and attractive copy. Scarce.
Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), The Liberator, was born at Carhan near Caherciveen, County Kerry to the O’Connells of Derrynane, a once-wealthy Roman Catholic family, which had been dispossessed of its lands. Among his uncles was Daniel Charles, Count O’Connell, an officer in the Irish Brigades in France. Under the patronage of his wealthy bachelor uncle Maurice “Hunting Cap” O’Connell, he studied at Douai in France. He became a barrister first at Lincoln’s Inn, later transferring to Dublin’s King’s Inns. O’Connell devoted his life to the cause of Catholic Emancipation.