Daniel O'connell

[xlabhaoisexx]

Hey!! I am doing an essay for school on the County Clare election, and how important that was in the passing of the Catholic emancipation act in 1829...I am not asking you to do the essay for me so please don't eat me but has anyone got any ideas, or views they would like to share about this subject? It would really help, as I kind of have to argue it in the essay...thnx in advance xxxx :-)

[Whickerman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Emancipa tion

Here you go - about half way down the page. (O'Connell's Campaign)

[crokepark]

By no means a definitive list of links but enough for you to get the information you need.

By 1826 the Catholic Association began supporting candidates in parliamentary elections. They had some spectacular victories, including O'Connell defeating C. E. Vesty Fitzgerald, President of the Board of Trade, in a County Clare by-election. However, as a Catholic, O'Connell was not allowed to take his seat in the House of Commons. More��

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRoconnel l.htm

http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/history/p eople/whoswho/oconnell.shtm

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/peopl e/daniel.htm

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw0 3/peel/people/oconnell.htm

Search results:

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr= ytff4-&p=Daniel%20O'connell

[lafrancaise]

That's exactly the way you have to ask the question to get the answers!

[xlabhaoisexx]

huh wat do u mean thats exactly the way i have to as the question??? oh btw just incase u ARE obsessed with french i had my french oral exam yesterday hehe :-)

[xlabhaoisexx]

Hang on...Croke park?? i've been there to see Armagh play!!!! ***** uppp!!!

[xlabhaoisexx]

ohhhh and btw thanks for all your help ppl!!! :-)

[starmack]

O'Connell is reharded as a great hero in Irish history. After Independence, most of the main streets in the main towns were re-named in his honour. That reflects the influence/hold of the Catholic Church in the new State as much as naything.
O'Connell was also very much a 'bosses' man and it is worth having a look at, or making reference to, his attitude in English history to his fellow Irishmen who founded the Chartist Movement -- the forerunner of the modern trade union movement. He was most unsympathetic to them in the House of Commons.
The rest of what you need for your essay is contained in the previous links. Good luck.

[starmack]

A brief link to the Chartists leader Feargus O'Connor, per my remarks above.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ oconnor_feargus.shtml

[xlabhaoisexx]

thanx a lot! it really helped...:-) xx

[xlabhaoisexx]

what other factors contributed to the passing of it though?

[xlabhaoisexx]

surely i will have to mension other factors....