3209 x 2381 px | 27,2 x 20,2 cm | 10,7 x 7,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
1901
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Illustration from Cassell's Century Edition History of England, pub circa 1901 by Henry Marriott Paget (1857-1936) Father John Murphy of Corofin is said to have enlisted the tenants of his parish by haranguing, intimidating and blackmailing them with threats of excommunication into abandoning their usually obsequious deference to their Protestant landlords and instead to vote for Daniel O'Connell "to a man" it was claimed. Info from wiki: The Clare by-election of 1828 was notable as this was the first time since the reformation that an openly Roman Catholic MP, Daniel O'Connell was elected. Clare was held by William Vesey Fitzgerald when he became the President of the Board of Trade. As this was seen to be an office of profit, Vesey-FitzGerald had to stand in a by-election. Daniel O'Connell decided to exploit a loophole in the Act of Union. It stated that Catholics could not sit in Westminster as a Member of Parliament (MP), but there was nothing about them standing for an election.[2] Like all Parliamentary elections at the time, Clare was held as an open vote, which meant that all votes would be known. This meant that Protestant and pro-union landowners could influence their tenants, who were far more likely to be Catholic and anti-union. O'Connell won the by-election. Since he was a Catholic, he could not take the Oath of Supremacy, which was incompatible with Catholicism and so could not take his seat in parliament. The Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, and the Home Secretary, Sir Robert Peel, even though they opposed Catholic participation in Parliament, saw that denying O'Connell his seat would cause outrage and could lead to another rebellion or uprising in Ireland, which was about 85% Catholic.[4] This led directly to the Catholic Relief Act 1829.
