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Derrynane house in South Kerry - one of the county's top visited tourism sites - and home of the statesman Daniel O’Connell is to feature on a new RTE series.

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This year, the Culture Date with Dublin 8 festival will commemorate the 250th anniversary of Daniel O'Connell's birth with a number of specially curated events.

On This Day: Irish Famine writer William Carleton is born William Carleton, the man famed for his depictions of life in Ireland during The Great Hunger, was born on this day, February 20, 1794.

The painting is understood to have originally been commissioned by one of the National Bank of Ireland’s early directors, an organisation for which O’Connell was chairman.

Bureaucratic delays tied up return of Daniel O’Connell painting to Ireland, files show The Royal Bank of Scotland tried to give the State the portrait for two years.

The painting is understood to have originally been commissioned by one of the National Bank of Ireland’s early directors, an organisation for which O’Connell was chairman.