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Daniel O'Connell and the Monster Meetings for Repeal
In the early 1840s, Daniel O'Connell—already famed for winning Catholic Emancipation—launched a new campaign to repeal the Act of Union and restore an Irish parliament in Dublin. This episode follows the 'Monster Meetings', the vast peaceful assemblies he organised across Ireland, drawing hundreds of thousands of people at places like Tara, the Hill of Uisneach, and Clontarf. We explore O'Connell's oratory, his tactics of mass mobilisation, the reaction of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, and the dramatic showdown at Clontarf in October 1843 when O'Connell called…
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