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Title: Daniel O'Connell and the revival of national life in Ireland
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dunlop, Robert. (from old catalog)
Subjects: O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847 Nationalism
Publisher: New York (etc.) G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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CIATION.I823-1824. ONE day towards the latter end of April, 1823,OConnell and a number of Catholic gentle-men met together in Dempseys tavern,in Sackville Street. It was a place well known toDublin citizens who loved a good glass of wine anda well-cooked chop or steak. Added to these attrac-tions, it possessed a large, lofty room, which, whenthe tavern was succeeded by Tyrrels Library,formed the reading-room of that institution. It wasthis latter fact that had drawn OConnell and hisfriends thither, and the fame of tavern and libraryhas yielded to that of the little meeting. For itwas here that the mighty Catholic Association, thatshook the whole social fabric of Ireland to its basis,that wrested emancipation from a hostile administra-tion and made its influence felt on the bourses ofEurope, had its birth. The meeting had been con-vened at the requisition of OConnell and Sheil inorder to consider the state of the Catholic question.Of late years there had been a practical suspension 130
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< CO 1823-18241 The Catholic Association. 131 of agitation, and things had gone backward ratherthan forward with them. At the same time, how-ever, the old quarrel over the veto had lost much ofits asperity, and no longer formed an insuperableobstacle to a reunion of all parties. A new genera-tion, too, had been springing up, and was beginningto take an active part in public affairs. Sufferinghad softened mens feelings toward each other, andthere was no longer that antagonism between classand class that had worked havoc in their councilsof the past. Moving Lord Killeen, the Earl of Fingals son,who to high rank added sound views and a loftyspirit of independence unusual in a Catholic peer,into the chair, OConnell rose to explain the objectof the meeting. It was, he said, clear to everybodythat the state of the Catholics of Ireland was at themoment more degrading, if not more hopeless, than ithad ever been. No one, on the contrary, could ac-cuse their enemies, the Orangemen, of supine

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