History & The Arts
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
...leadership of a Roman Catholic barrister, Daniel O’Connell (1775–1847, depicted in Figure 9). In 1823, O’Connell and Richard Lalor Sheil (1791–1851) founded the Catholic Association, an organisation that was remarkably successful in gaining support across the social spectrum in Ireland, from landed Catholics and the middle classes, to the illiterate, Irish...