LSource 1 O’Connell agitated (campaigned) for Catholic Emancipation for 30 years. Two contrasting things appalled (shocked) him about the oppression (coercion) of the Catholics. The first was how generations of being downtrodden (kept down) turned them into what he called ‘hereditary bondsmen (slaves)’, almost accepting of their plight (condition). On the other hand, O’Connell was appalled at how easily the oppressed could themselves become tyrannical shedders of blood (of others) on a large scale: he saw this in France as a schoolboy and in Ireland in 1798. (Adrian Hardiman, The counsellor and the Liberator, a man of his time, The Irish Times, 21 April 2014)
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COMMEMMORATION LSource 3 Daniel O’Connell and his supporters in an English cartoon (1828)
1. Are Sources 1 to 3 primary or secondary? 2. Does the author of Source 1 admire O’Connell?
3. What two things appalled O’Connell, according to Source 1?
4. How are O’Connell’s supporters represented in the cartoon?
5. What is the significance of the signpost?
6. What does the cartoon fear will happen after Catholic Emancipation?
O’Connell was honoured by the new Irish Free State in 1929, on the centenary of Catholic Emancipation
7. Is the cartoon in Source 2 in favour or opposed to Catholic Emancipation?
8. Do you think a similar stamp to Source 3 was issued in Northern Ireland to honour the same centenary? Explain your answers in each case.
