Had it fallen a little earlier so as to coincide with the ...

Had it fallen a little earlier so as to coincide with the Chartist movement in England, and if O'Connell could have overcome his aversion to physical force, the results might have been memorable. But in 1839 Ireland was so peaceful that soldiers could be spared for England, and

in 1843 England was in such

good humour that they could be safely sent to Ireland.

On October 9th a great demonstration was to assemble at Clontarf; it was proclaimed and O'Connell arrested.

Convicted, almost of course, by a Protestant Dublin jury, he was set at liberty by the House of Lords. The incident added a phrase to the language -Lord Denman saying that trial by jury as practiced in this case was 'a delusion, a mockery, and a snare', and the Nationalist movement died down.' Peel's Government used their victory not unwisely.

They issued a Royal Commission of Enquiry into Irish land tenure and, in the teeth of a frantic Protestant opposition, they carried their proposal to increase the grant for training

Irish priests at Maynooth.

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