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Ireland has claims on your ancient race, as it is the only Christian country that I know of unsullied by any one act of persecution of the Jews.

— Daniel O'Connell

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Letter to Isaac Goldsmid (11 September 1829), quoted in Lionel Abrahams, 'Sir I. L. Goldsmid and the Admission of the Jews of England to Parliament', Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England), Vol. 4 (1899–1901), p. 151

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