THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

DANIEL O'CONNELL.

BY

WILLIAM FAGAN, ESQ., M.P.

VOL. II.

CORK:

JOHN O'BRIEN.

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON.

T. LEMESURIER, AND RICHARDSON & SON, DUBLIN.

OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH.

BRITISH

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER FIRST.

1830-1833.

Commencement of the agitation for the Repeal of the

Union-The O'Connell Memoir of Ireland-The ques-

tion of Repeal considered-O'Connell's Letter to the

People of Ireland on this subject-Letter to the electors

of Clare on the Grand Jury Law-Formation of the

Society of the Friends of Ireland-its suppression by

Proclamation-encounter with Mr. Doherty and Lord F.

L. Gower-the Clare Election of 1830-Collision with

O'Gorman Mahon-O'Connell's Election for Waterford

County-Letters on Repeal, Dinner in Cork, new agita-

tion--Opinion of a London Paper-attempt to form

Anti-Union Association-affair with Sir Henry Har-

dinge-the Public Breakfast-Leinster Declaration-

proceedings of the Marquis of Anglesey-the Annuity—

proceedings in Drogheda-the Tithe question-Govern-

ment Proclamations-Scene at Hayes's Tavern-Address

to the People of Ireland on the Banks-Scenes at the

Theatre and Police Office, Dublin-Prosecution of

O'Connell under the Algerine Act-Juvenile Meeting

in Dublin—Reform in England-the Elections-Mas-

sacre at Newtownbarry-retort on Sir Charles Wetherall

--O'Connell's refusal of Office-passing of the National

Education Act-quarrel with the Dublin Press in 1831—

Lord Stanley's Tithe measure-agitation against Tithes