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Butt was born in Glenfin, Donegal , the son of a Protestant rector. He began his career as a Tory politician on Dublin Corporation . A brilliant Barrister , he defended Irish leader Daniel O'Connell in court. His experiences during the Famine led him to move from being an Irish Unionist and an Orangeman to becoming an Irish nationalist. This led to his involvement in Irish nationalist politics and the foundation of the Home Rule League. He died in 5 May 1879 in Clonskeagh in Dublin .His remains were brought by train to Stranorlar, Co Donegal where he is bured in a corner of the C of I cemetery beneath a tree in which he used to sit and dream as a boy. |
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