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The Catholic Emancipation Campaign: Daniel O'Connell's Triumph
In 1823, Daniel O'Connell founded the Catholic Association to fight for Catholic Emancipation—the right for Catholics to sit in the British Parliament. This episode follows O'Connell's innovative use of the 'Catholic rent' (a penny a month from peasants) to build a mass movement, the pivotal Clare by-election of 1828 where O'Connell won a seat he couldn't take, and the political crisis that forced Prime Minister Wellington and Peel to grant Emancipation in 1829. We discuss O'Connell's partnership with the Catholic hierarchy, the role of priests as…
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