Daniel O'Connell (6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847) (Irish: Dónal Ó Conaill), known as The Liberator or The Emancipator, was Ireland's predominant political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century who championed the cause of the down-trodden Catholic population. He campaigned for Catholic Emancipation and Repeal of the Union between Ireland and Great Britain.He is remembered in Ireland as the founder of a non-violent form of Irish nationalism and also for the mobilization of the Catholic community as a political force in order to achieve emancipation.

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