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Happy! - Aug 6 (Dan O'Connell was alive)

06 Aug 05 - 09:41 AM (#1536339)
Subject: Happy! - Aug 6 (Dan O'Connell was alive)
From: Abby Sale

Happy Birthday!

Daniel O'Connell, the "Liberator,"

was born

Aug 6, 1775
(d5/15/1847)

He was said to have created the first truly democratic political movement in Roman Catholic Ireland.


          In eighteen hundred and forty-five
          When Dan'el O'Connell, he was alive
          When Dan'el O'Connell, he was alive
          And working on the railway
  
                  I was wearing corduroy britches,
                     digging ditches,
                     pulling switches,
                     dodging hitches,
                  I was working on  the railway.
  
                          "Paddy Works on the Railway"