Editing Daniel O'Connell (section)

===Family===
In 1802, O'Connell married his third cousin, [[Mary O'Connell (1778–1836)|Mary O'Connell]]. He did so in defiance of his benefactor, his uncle Maurice, who believed his nephew should have sought out an heiress.<ref name="Geohegan 2020" />{{rp|94–97}} They had four daughters (three surviving), [[Ellen Bridget O'Connell|Ellen]] (1805–1883), Catherine (1808–1891), Elizabeth (1810–1883), and Rickarda (1815–1817) and four sons, [[Maurice O'Connell (MP)|Maurice]] (1803–1853), [[Morgan O'Connell|Morgan]] (1804–1885), [[John O'Connell (MP)|John]] (1810–1858), and [[Daniel O'Connell Jnr|Daniel]] (1816–1897). In time, each of the boys was to join their father as [[Members of Parliament]]. Despite O'Connell's early infidelities,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Macdonald |first1=Henry |title=Duels, debts and love affairs – the real Daniel O'Connell |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/16/ireland-history |access-date=8 August 2020 |work=The Observer |date=16 November 2008 |archive-date=11 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111191102/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/16/ireland-history |url-status=live }}</ref> the marriage was happy and Mary's death in 1837 was a blow from which her husband is said never to have recovered.<ref>Ó Faoláin, Seán (1938), ''King of the Beggars: A Life of Daniel O'Connell''. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. p. 87</ref>