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197 years ago today on 12 May 1823 the Catholic Association, a political organisation, was set up by Daniel O'Connell to campaign for Catholic emancipation within Great Britain. It was one of the first mass-membership political protest movements in Europe. O’Connell aka The Great
Liberator, a lawyer, realised that as a Catholic, while he was forbidden to take a seat in Parliament, there was no law preventing him running for election. He was elected in 1828. Prime Minister Duke of Wellington & top aide Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, until then called
“Orange Peel" due to his unionist views, gave in to the movement to avoid the potential of civil war & passed the Catholic Relief Act 1829, 10 Geo. 4 c. 7, which repealed the Test Act 1672 & the last of the Penal Laws in force since the passing of the Disenfranchising Act of the
Irish Parliament of 1728. The Act, inter alia, allowed Catholics to sit in parliament. To overcome opposition of the House of Lords & King George IV, Wellington campaigned to get passage in the House of Lords, and threatened to resign as PM if the King did not give Royal Assent.
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105 years ago today on 18 May 1905, the foundation stone of the Honan Chapel at University College Cork was laid down. The Irish University Act, 1908, had decreed that no part of the finance made available for the new University College, Cork, (formerly Queen's College), should
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Isabella Honan, Rev Sir John O'Connell, a former solicitor turned priest, was in a position to provide the necessary finance. The Honan family had been butter merchants in Cork for generations.
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On 15 May 1862 @ 6 AM a warden in the Cork County Goal saw fire raging in the nearby Queens College & raised the alarm. The West Wing, a two-storey building above 120' feet long & 30' wide was in flames. The Corporation firefighting apparatus arrived but there was no hydrant in
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191 years ago today on 15 May 1829- Daniel O’Connell aka The Great Liberator, presented himself at the bar of the House of Commons, but was asked to withdraw for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy which required any person taking public or church office to swear allegiance to
the monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Failure to do so was to be treated as treasonable.
A lawyer, he had realised that as a Catholic, while he would be forbidden to take a seat in Parliament, there was no law preventing him running for election and he did so
successfully in 1828. He used the election result to pressurise the British Government to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829.
18 years later on 15 May 1847 he died in Genoa Italy. His heart was buried in Rome and his body returned to Dublin and buried in Glasnevin.
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