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Was Daniel O'Connell a Great Irish National Leader?
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Was Daniel O'Connell a Great Irish National Leader? The rebellion of 1798 and the Act of Union in 1800 had dashed the hopes of the Catholic leaders on the Irish Question, the Catholics were in a state of vassalage and they were still pariahs compared with the Protestants. Many of the leaders had accomplished very little and their prospects of success looked very bleak, they were even willing to support a compromise Emancipation Bill which, even though granted political and civil rights to the Catholics, included a 'veto' which allowed the British government the right to vet ecclesiastical appointments to the Roman Catholic Church in order to ensure that only 'loyal' clerics were appointed. But Daniel O'Connell, an unknown Catholic lawyer, denounced the bill and inaugurated a different policy that soon gave the Catholic movement an energy it had not possessed before. With the failure of the 1821 Catholic Emancipation Bill (which...
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