
Politics of Repeal
This work is primarily concerned with the last great campaign in Daniel O''Connell''s career and its impact on British and Irish politics. The eighteen-forties were marked by a formidable agitation to have the Act of Union repealed and an independent Irish legislature restored. In attacking the Union between Great Britain and Ireland, O''Connell encountered the sustained opposition of Sir Robert P...
This work is primarily concerned with the last great campaign in Daniel O''Connell''s career and its impact on British and Irish politics. The eighteen-forties were marked by a formidable agitation to have the Act of Union repealed and an independent Irish legislature restored. In attacking the Union between Great Britain and Ireland, O''Connell encountered the sustained opposition of Sir Robert P...