Irish nationalists continued to dispute O'Connell's legacy—honoured in 1922 in the renaming of Dublin's principal thoroughfare. Biographers have suggested that his combination of confessional politics and liberal principle was a forerunner of European Christian democracy.
Irish nationalists continued to dispute O'Connell's legacy—honoured in 1922 in the renaming of Dublin's principal thoroughfare Biographers have suggested that his combination of confessional politics and liberal principle was a forerunner of European Christian democracy