Tara and Clontarf
O’Connell was already the most formidable Irish popular politician of his age. His earlier mass campaign had helped secure Catholic Emancipation in 1829; now he argued that Ireland needed domestic self-government rather than piecemeal concessions from Westminster. Repeal, as he presented it, did not mean separation from the Crown. Ireland would share the monarch but recover a parliament in Dublin, capable of addressing Irish taxation, industry, land and social conditions.