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CSO/RP/CA/1828/2

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a ‘Separate Meeting of Catholics’, held at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, chaired by Gonville Ffrench, with verbatim transcription of speeches. [Daniel] O’Connell observed an item published in the newspapers that morning, which claimed that members of the press were not adequately accommodated at association meetings. O’Connell stated that the upper end of the table in the meeting room was exclusively reserved for this purpose, and asked members not to sit in these seats. [Michael] Dillon Bellew noted a letter received from the earl of Shrewsbury [John Talbot, 16th earl of Shrewsbury]. [Remainder of item not present].

6 Feb 1828

1828

CSO/RP/CA/1828/3

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a ‘Adjourned Separate Meeting of Catholics’, held at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, chaired by Michael Dillon Bellew, with verbatim transcription of speech by [Daniel] O’Connell, who moved that a dinner in honour of Lord Killeen [Arthur James Plunkett, 9th earl of Fingall] be postponed from 14 to 18 February. Referring to a motion of thanks to the Duke of Devonshire [William Cavendish, 6th earl of Devonshire], Lord Lansdowne [Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd marquis Lansdowne] and ‘other seceding Ministers’ passed at a previous meeting, O’Connell moved that a series of resolutions be adopted ‘for a vote of thanks for the late Administration and a vote of distrust with regard to the present’. He remarked that a recent speech by [William] Huskisson demonstrated that the aim of the current government was ‘to delude us if they can, to make us believe that a system of neutrality is intended to be acted upon which we know does not exist’. [Remainder of item not present].

11 Feb 1828

1828

CSO/RP/CA/1828/4

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a ‘Adjourned Separate Meeting of Catholics’, held at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, chaired by Edmund Rorke Esq, with verbatim transcription of speeches relating to an objection made against the association holding its meetings in Clarendon Street chapel, secured for them by the ‘influence and kindness’ of Rev [Francis J] L’Estrange. [Michael] Dillon Bellew stated that he had recently met with L’Estrange, who explained that ‘he did not think that such a scene as had occurred at the last Aggregate Meeting was fit for the House of God – he said it was a scene of tumult’. [Remainder of item not present].

12 Feb 1828

1828

CSO/RP/CA/1828/5

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a ‘Aggregate Meeting of Catholics’, held at the Church of St Teresa, Clarendon Street, Dublin, chaired by Sir Thomas Esmonde [9th Baronet Esmonde], with verbatim transcription of speeches. Esmonde remarked that he ‘never took the chair at a Catholic meeting under feelings more oppressive and never attended a Catholic meeting under circumstances so awful as at the present… our prospects which were lately bright are now clouded’, and asked members that the day’s proceedings be conducted with ‘good humour and unanimity’. [Remainder of item not present].

13 Feb 1828

1828

CSO/RP/CA/1828/6

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a ‘Aggregate Meeting of Catholics’, held at the Church of St Teresa, Clarendon Street, Dublin, chaired by Gonville Ffrench, with verbatim transcription of speeches. Poor attendance noted by the Secretary Mr O’Gorman. Mr Dillon conveyed the apologies of Sir Thomas Esmonde [9th Baronet Esmonde] for his absence at the meeting, and stated that the association was nonetheless convinced of ‘the zeal, ability and earnestness with which the Honourable Baronet advocates the common interests of the Catholics’. [Remainder of item not present].

14 Feb 1828

1828

CSO/RP/CA/1828/7

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a meeting of the ‘New Catholic Association’, held at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, chaired by Francis Blake Forster, noting report made by the Secretary [Stephen] Coppinger. Letter received from Michael Lee, Secretary for the United Parishes of Kildare and Rathangan, County Kildare, enclosing subscriptions to the amount of £10 18s 5d. Also letter from Rev Edward Boyle, parish of Drumachose, County Londonderry, outlining proceedings of a meeting of catholics at Newtownlimavady chapel on 13 February relating to the forwarding of a petition to Daniel O’Connell for presentation to the House of Commons, and a donation to the association made in lieu of a subscription as it was ‘not deemed advisable just now to establish a rent in this County’. [Remainder of item not present].

16 Feb 1828

1828

CSO/RP/CA/1828/8

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a meeting of the ‘New Catholic Association’, held at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, chaired by [Joseph] Burke, with verbatim transcription of speeches. [Christopher] Fitzsimon conveyed the apologies of Roger Hayes, who could not attend the meeting but had instead submitted a report from a committee appointed to oversee the building of a new chapel in the parish of Dungarvan, County Waterford. In light of the numerous calls on the catholic rent in the area by the forty shilling freeholders, it was decided that it would not be considered ‘expedient or proper’ to allocate a sum of money for this purpose. [Nicholas Purcell] O’Gorman commented: ‘if there is any one parish in Ireland more than another entitled to the consideration of the Catholic Association… it would be this parish of Dungarvan’. [Remainder of item not present].

23 Feb 1828

1828

CSO/RP/CA/1828/9

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a ‘Separate Meeting of Catholics’, held at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, chaired by John Lawless, with verbatim transcription of speech by James Blake Forster concerning a petition proposed by him at an aggregate meeting on 13 February. Forster argued that governmental reform would be better than emancipation, as it would address the whole of catholic concerns, including corporation abuses ‘by which £50000 a year is wrung from a starving and dense population’, and a rising national debt ‘that hangs like a load stone on the neck of Great Britain’. He commented: ‘I care not which party is in office, whether Whig or Tory, high or low church, the question… is whether mankind are to obtain their rights’. [Remainder of item not present].

27 Feb 1828

1828

CSO/RP/CA/1828/10

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a ‘Separate Meeting of Catholics’, held in the Great Room, the Corn Exchange, Dublin, chaired by John Dillon Esq, with verbatim transcription of speeches. Requisition read by Secretary Mr Norton calling the meeting for the purpose of discussing ‘the propriety of petitioning the Legislature against the misappropriation of money for Education purposes’. [A Carew] O’Dwyer interrupted the reading to state that the meeting should be dissolved as it was ‘illegally convened’. [Remainder of item not present].

2 Apr 1828

1828

CSO/RP/CA/1828/11

First 2 pages of a memorandum providing eye-witness account of a meeting of the ‘New Catholic Association’, held at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, chaired by [John] Redmond, with verbatim transcription of speech by Mr Dillon concerning letter received from [Edward] Kernan [Catholic Bishop of Clogher] in response to a vote of thanks offered to him at a previous meeting. Noted that [Michael] Staunton had previously described Kernan as ‘a person zealous and pious in the fulfilment of his duty as a pastor and meritorious as a Citizen’. Kernan’s letter subsequently read to the assembly [remainder of item not present].

5 Apr 1828

1828