Editing Daniel O'Connell (section)

===Kerry and France===
O'Connell was born at Carhan<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/buildings-database/carhan-house-cahersiveen | title=Carhan House CAHERSIVEEN }}</ref> near [[Cahersiveen]], [[County Kerry]], to the [[O'Connells of Derrynane]], a wealthy Roman Catholic family that, under the [[Penal Laws against Irish Catholics|Penal Laws]], had been able to retain land only through the medium of Protestant trustees and the forbearance of their Protestant neighbours.<ref name="McCarthy">{{cite book |last1=McCarthy |first1=John Huntly |title=Ireland since the Union |date=1887 |publisher=Chatto & Windus |location=London |page=86}}</ref> His parents were Morgan O'Connell and Catherine O'Mullane. The poet [[Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill]] was an aunt; and [[Daniel Charles, Count O'Connell]], an [[Irish Brigade (France)|Irish Brigade]] officer in the service of the [[Louis XVI|King of France]] (and twelve years a prisoner of [[Napoleon]]), an uncle. O'Connell grew up in [[Derrynane House]], the household of his bachelor uncle, [[Maurice O'Connell (Hunting Cap)|Maurice "Hunting Cap" O'Connell]] (landowner, smuggler and [[justice of the peace]]) who made the young O'Connell his heir presumptive.

In 1791, under his uncle's patronage, O'Connell and his elder brother Maurice were sent to continue their schooling in France at the [[Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège|English Jesuit college]] of [[Saint-Omer]].<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11200c.htm Daniel O'Connell, ''Catholic Encyclopædia''] 2023.</ref> Revolutionary upheaval and their mob denunciation as "young priests" and "little aristocrats", persuaded them in January 1793 to flee their [[Benedictine]] college at [[Douai]]. They crossed the English Channel with the brothers [[Sheares brothers|John and Henry Sheares]] who displayed a handkerchief soaked, they claimed, in the blood of [[Louis XVI]], the late executed king.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Igoe |first1=Brian |title=Daniel O'Connell's Childhood |url=https://www.theirishstory.com/2013/02/03/daniel-oconnells-childhood/ |website=The Irish Story |access-date=31 July 2020 |archive-date=26 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926012533/https://www.theirishstory.com/2013/02/03/daniel-oconnells-childhood/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The experience is said to have left O'Connell with a lifelong aversion to mob rule and violence.<ref>{{cite book |last1=MacDonagh |first1=Oliver |title=O'Connell: The Life of Daniel O'Connell |date=1991 |publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |location=london |isbn=9780297820178 |page=26}}</ref>