In Ireland, He is known as the great liberator, the founder of mass participation politics( which later led to the huge political success of Irish-Americans in US politics ), His statue stands proudly errect our eponymous main street in Dublin for birds to do their business on, He was the mainforce behind catholic emancipation in Ireland within the Union with Britain, he also had a great reputation as our biggest fornicator ( it was said you could not hit a child in a workhouse with a stone thrown from the outside without hitting one of his offspring, he was also noted for having a brilliant legal mind, being a superlative speaker and according to evidence being very corrupt, indeed our indigenous mafia political party AKA Fianna Fail would be an ideal modern home for him. He also famously killed another man in a duel, though a pacifist in general, actually stating that the freedom of Ireland wasn't worth a drop of human blood.
So if he had concentrated on his legal practice or been killed in a duel, or as nearly happened got thrown out of political life for corruption or died of venereal disease before making a substantial impact, how would the world and Ireland have changed?
So if he had concentrated on his legal practice or been killed in a duel, or as nearly happened got thrown out of political life for corruption or died of venereal disease before making a substantial impact, how would the world and Ireland have changed?