Frank Hugh O’Donnell: a virulent anti-Semite

‘Crank Hugh’ left a trail of bitterness and recrimination. By Colum Kenny Frank Hugh O’Donnell (1846–1916) merits entries in both the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Cambridge/RIA Dictionary of Irish Biography, yet neither refers to his virulent anti-Semitism. The British immigration and identity scholar Kenneth Lunn has written of O’Donnell’s consistently exhibited view ... Read more

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