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Record 91 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/19

TITLE:

Memorandum of meeting entitled 'Proceedings of New Catholic Association', Saturday 30 September 1826

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Memorandum providing eye-witness account entitled 'Proceedings of New Catholic Association', chaired by M [Michael] Dillon Bellew Esq, with verbatim transcription of speeches. Outlines subscriptions to the catholic rent, including lists of names, locations and amounts; the voting in of new members; and details of both incoming and outgoing donations for relief of the forty shilling freeholders. Contains reports of the plight of freeholders around the country, such as in the parish of Turbitstown [Turbotstown], County Westmeath, where Rev David Walsh remarked ‘the parish is poor and the Landlords of Westmeath are determined to make it more so’. Petition received from freeholders in County Waterford who defied instructions to vote for Lord George Beresford [1st marquis Beresford] in the recent election, and instead ‘openly declared’ their support for his opponent, Henry Villiers Stuart. As a result of their ‘daring’, they stated that they were served with ejectments from their lands. Sir John Burke commented that such contests between landlord and tenant forced the freeholder ‘to choose between his direct private interests and his political rights as a British subject’, but recent electoral successes had proved ‘not only that the forty shilling freeholders can no longer be considered instruments of aristocratic power but that they are highly deserving of the political advantages they at present enjoy as Electors’. Report received from a meeting of catholics in County Wicklow, attended by James Grattan. Also letter from [Daniel] O’Connell, Derrynane, County Kerry, enclosing his subscription of £5, and proclaiming that, having recently seen the collection of the catholic rent first hand, ‘a few examples of that description would do more good than if any agitator of us was preaching for a month… if we get one shilling a year each from the one eighth of the Catholics of Ireland for there are eight millions vires acquirit eundo… we shall have £50000…’

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1 item; 75pp

DATE(S):

30 Sep 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

Record 92 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/20

TITLE:

Memorandum entitled 'Mr Shiell's [sic] Speech', Saturday 30 September 1826

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Memorandum providing eye-witness account of a speech by [Richard Lalor] Sheil, made at the close of the New Catholic Association meeting. Refers to reproduction in the London newspapers of remarks made by him at a recent catholic dinner at Mullingar, County Westmeath relating to ‘the maladies of the Duke of York [Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany]’. Claimed that his comments were made in response to a toast given at the dinner to the duke’s health, to which he was ‘not accustomed at our public assemblies’ and to which he protested. Refers to letters sent by the duke to ‘a certain celebrated concubine’, which Sheil described as ‘erotic effusions’ and ‘curious specimens of composition’. Sheil admitted: ‘it did excite my indignation that a man who had so recently been wallowing in the stye of inglorious sensuality… still reeking from the arms of a Courtesan… [should] presume to call upon the name of the Almighty and Eternal God and dedicate himself… to the eternal degradation of this portion of the Kingdom’. Also refers to scandal involving the duke’s former mistress, [Mary Anne] Clarke. Sheil concluded: ‘I for one do not wish him a salvation to health… I prefer the liberty of Ireland to the health of the Duke of York’.

EXTENT:

1 item; 23pp

DATE(S):

30 Sep 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

Record 93 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/21

TITLE:

Letter from W B Gurney reporting on a meeting of the Catholic Association on 30 September 1826

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Letter from W B Gurney, 55 Sackville Street to Thomas Taylor, [clerk, Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin] reporting on that day's meeting of the 'Roman Catholic Association' and promising to forward a copy of speeches; mentioning the debate between [Rev Francis J] L'Estrange and Mr Sheill [Richard Lalor Sheil] concerning the allocation of Catholic Association funds to tenants threatened with ejectment in County Waterford; noting that he is attending to 'the business of the Revenue Commission'.

EXTENT:

1 item; 2 pp

DATE(S):

30 Sep 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

Record 94 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/22

TITLE:

Memorandum of meeting of the 'New Catholic Association', Saturday 7 October 1826

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Memorandum providing eye-witness account of the first day of a meeting of the 'New Catholic Association' chaired by Capt James O’Gorman Mahon Esq, with verbatim transcription of speeches. Outlines subscriptions to the catholic rent, including lists of names, locations and amounts; the voting in of new members; the activities of the Finance Committee; and details of both incoming and outgoing donations for relief of the forty shilling freeholders. Letter received from Rev Slevin in the diocese of Ardagh, County Longford, stating that members of the clergy were anxious to join the association as it would encourage the collection of the catholic rent in the area. O’Gorman Mahon commented that without the assistance of the clergy, ‘we could not be so happy and comfortable as we are at present… we now form one Body and we go before the English Nation in a congregated mass’. Letter received from ‘a very respectable Protestant Gentleman’, Thomas Barnes, in support of the forty shilling freeholders, who he claimed continued to suffer under the oppression and tyranny of their landlords, and ‘whose only offence has been following the dictates of their conscience’. Refers to a series of recent elections in County Cork, and the rivalry between Gerard Callaghan, Christopher Hely Hutchinson ‘that most excellent Senator and honest man’ who died some months later, and his son, [John Hely] Hutchinson [II]. Also refers to the opposition to an association meeting at Murry’s Cross, Castlebellingham, County Louth chaired by Sir Edward Bellew [6th Baronet Bellew] by the local magistrates, led by Lord Oriel [John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel]. Vote of thanks to Bellew passed for his conduct at the meeting. Contains unidentified handwritten annotations throughout the text, highlighting passages relating to the political facets of the association, its subscriptions and the frequency of its meetings.

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1 item; 89pp

DATE(S):

7 Oct 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

Record 95 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/23

TITLE:

Letter from George Warburton enclosing a report of a Catholic Association meeting [not present]

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Letter from George Warburton, Castlegar, [County Galway] to Henry Goulburn, [Chief Secretary] enclosing minutes of a R C [Roman Catholic] meeting in [?] [not present]; includes annotation noting that enclosure was 'sent to Mr Peel'.

EXTENT:

1 item; 2 pp

DATE(S):

10 Oct 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

Record 96 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/24

TITLE:

Memorandum of meeting of the 'New Catholic Association', Saturday 14 October 1826

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Memorandum providing eye-witness account of a meeting of the 'New Catholic Association' chaired by Christopher Fitzsimon Esq, with verbatim transcription of speeches. Outlines subscriptions to the catholic rent, including lists of names, locations and amounts; the voting in of new members; and details of both incoming and outgoing donations for relief of the forty shilling freeholders. Refers to the attendance at a recent provincial meeting in Connaught of the Duke of Montebello [Louis Napoléon Lannes], who expressed ‘the feelings of entire France for the oppression of the Catholics of Ireland’. Fitzsimon stated that this was controversial, as it spoke to ‘the fears of England’. Death of Edward Hay announced by Surgeon Wright, with subsequent discussion relating to the use of a portion of the catholic rent to aid Hay’s family and the importance of the attendance of members at his funeral. Letter received from Rev Charles McDermot, Emyvale, County Monaghan, reporting the appearance of a female preacher in the area who dismissed a man from her employment as he would not attend her Sunday lectures. Refers to the ‘machinations’ of bible societies around the country, described as both a ‘persecuting sect’ and the ‘blackest organeism’, which had caused ‘so much mischief to the peace of Ireland’. Favourable mention of both Eneas MacDonnell and Gonville Ffrench for their conduct at a recent catholic meeting at Ballinasloe, County Galway, which was opposed in arms by Lord Dunlo [Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd earl of Clancarty] and the Clancarty family. Contains unidentified handwritten annotations throughout the text, highlighting passages relating to the political facets of the association, its subscriptions and the frequency of its meetings; in particular, [John] Lawless’s description of the catholic rent as a ‘great and peaceful instrument’, and ‘the terror of the monopolists of Ireland which has desolated the Beresfords and the Leslies and all the Orangemen’.

EXTENT:

1 item; 101pp

DATE(S):

14 Oct 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

Record 97 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/25

TITLE:

Memorandum of meeting of the 'New Catholic Association', Saturday 21 October 1826

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Memorandum providing eye-witness account of a meeting of the 'New Catholic Association' chaired by Sir Thomas Esmonde Esq [9th Baronet Esmonde], with verbatim transcription of speeches. Outlines subscriptions to the catholic rent, including lists of names, locations and amounts; the voting in of new members; and details of both incoming and outgoing donations for relief of the forty shilling freeholders. Letter received from Sir Edward Bellew [6th Baronet Bellew] acknowledging the gratitude of the association, expressed at a meeting on 7 October, for his conduct as chair of a meeting at Murry’s Cross, Castlebellingham, County Louth. Petition received from Andrew Fox, a freeholder in County Dublin, who voted for Col [Henry] White in the recent election and was subsequently subjected to ‘the severest penalties of the Law for the exercise of his franchise’. Refers to the refusal of the finance committee to grant aid to an individual, Mr Fitzpatrick, in County Kilkenny, on three grounds: firstly, that he owed three years’ worth of catholic rent; secondly, that he was not a freeholder; and thirdly, that he consequently could not vote for the associations preferred candidate, Col [Charles Harward] Butler Clarke. [Richard Lalor] Sheil announced that a sum of £20 was donated to the family of the recently deceased Edward Hay. Noted that at a catholic meeting in 1811, a charitable donation of £500 had been approved for Hay, but this amount was not paid to him. Majority of proceedings relate to a lengthy report by Sheil, detailing his correspondence with catholic bodies in counties such as Westmeath, Wexford and Tipperary; names of new members and subscribers along with their subscription amount, including that of the O’Conor Don [Owen O’Conor]; as well as his activities on visits to local areas, in particular his public denouncement of Rev Murray in County Westmeath. Observation made by [John] Browne that notwithstanding the successes of the recent elections, 200 catholic freeholders in the city of Dublin remained unregistered to vote. Also resolution put forward by Rev Kirwan to thank the [catholic] Bishop of Norwich [Henry Bathurst] for his support of the catholic cause in Tuam, County Galway. Contains unidentified handwritten annotations throughout the text, highlighting passages relating to the political facets of the association, its subscriptions and the frequency of its meetings.

EXTENT:

1 item; 75pp

DATE(S):

21 Oct 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

Record 98 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/26

TITLE:

Memorandum of meeting of the 'New Catholic Association', Saturday 28 October 1826

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Memorandum providing eye-witness account of a meeting of the 'New Catholic Association' chaired by William McDermott Esq, with verbatim transcription of speeches. Outlines subscriptions to the catholic rent, including lists of names, locations and amounts; and the voting in of new members. Letter received from [William] Brett, Secretary of the Relief Committee in County Louth, concerning the difficulties in managing donations for freeholders as a result of the recent change of currency, and the differing opinions of the Attorney General [William Plunkett] and the Solicitor General [Henry Joy] on the issue – decided that the legal advice of [Daniel] O’Connell would be sought at the earliest opportunity. Lengthy debate originated from report given by [William Francis] Finn. In response to a claim made by Leslie Foster in the House of Commons that the ratio of catholics to protestants in County Kilkenny was 12 to 1, when a survey by [William] Tighe had found it to be 1972 to 1, Finn stated that he devoted himself ‘to ascertain the real state of the population… if the Slaves of Rome knew how to count their numbers they never would have submitted to the oppressed as they were’. Subsequent discussion covered a variety of topics, such as: a reflection on census returns from the city of Dublin and the general catholic population in Ireland; a dispute concerning the relative difficulty of conducting a census in the north of Ireland; and finally, a consideration of the relationship between catholics and presbyterians in Ulster and the difference between ‘the Presbyterians of the North… [and] the Presbyterian Orangemen or the Established Church Orangemen.’ Also refers to the setting up of a committee to publish a clarification in response to a recent report on the management of the Richmond Penitentiary, [Report of the Commissioners directed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to inquire into the state of the Richmond Penitentiary in Dublin, 1826], which was as a source of ‘public excitement’ as its findings were considered to have been ‘tortured and pressed into a sectarian subject’. Contains unidentified handwritten annotations throughout the text, highlighting passages relating to the political facets of the association, its subscriptions and the frequency of its meetings; in particular, [John] Lawless’s declaration to the assembly that the catholic rent was ‘the great lever with which you will rise and the great power with which you will beat down the common enemy’.

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1 item; 90pp

DATE(S):

28 Oct 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

Record 99 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/27

TITLE:

Memorandum of meeting of the 'New Catholic Association', Saturday 4 November 1826

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Memorandum providing eye-witness account of a meeting of the 'New Catholic Association' chaired by A [Carew] O’Dwyer Esq, with verbatim transcription of speeches. Outlines subscriptions to the catholic rent, including lists of names, locations and amounts; the voting in of new members; and details of both incoming and outgoing donations for relief of the forty shilling freeholders. Continued discussion from meeting held the week previously; referring to Leslie Foster’s false estimates of the catholic population in Ireland, [Daniel] O’Connell argued that the census was ‘the most useful measure’ adopted by the association. He introduced a number of topics for discussion, noting the difficulties faced by the small number of catholic clergy in Nenagh, County Tipperary, where ‘Biblical insanity had prevailed’ as members of the local gentry there were ‘of a very orange tinge’ and the descendants of ‘priest catchers’. He criticised the commissioners of education, who had promised a sum of £60000 for the education of the poor, but would not aid in the building of a catholic school in the area, in contrast to the Kildare Place Society school [Dublin] which received upwards of £30000. He remarked that Irish catholics were ‘not a shilling the better’ for the Lord Lieutenant the marquis Wellesley’s, administration. Referring to the growing successes of the catholic rent, O’Connell stated ‘there is not a peasant that does not understand it as well as any of ourselves – they feel the advantage and the importance that it gives them’. Letter received from Rev Carey in the archdiocese of Dublin, outlining census returns for the parishes of Swords and Malahide. Remainder of proceedings refer to the setting up of committee to oversee a relief fund for the family of the recently deceased [Edward] Hay; the allocation of a sum of £500 for this purpose; and the selection of members of this committee. Contains unidentified handwritten annotations throughout the text, highlighting passages relating to the political facets of the association, its subscriptions and the frequency of its meetings.

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1 item; 61pp

DATE(S):

4 Nov 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

Record 100 from 'CSO/RP'
NAI REFERENCE:

CSO/RP/CA/1826/28

TITLE:

Memorandum of meeting of the 'New Catholic Association', Saturday 11 November 1826

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Memorandum providing eye-witness account of a meeting of the 'New Catholic Association' chaired by Henry Murrough Esq, with verbatim transcription of speeches. Outlines subscriptions to the catholic rent, including lists of names, locations and amounts; the voting in of new members; and details of both incoming and outgoing donations for relief of the forty shilling freeholders. Report given by [Nicholas Purcell] O’Gorman of a growing number of bible societies in County Clare. Refers to the establishment of an ‘eavesdropping system’ by members of such societies, which reported information directly to Dublin Castle. He moved a vote of thanks to William McNamara, ‘the poor man’s magistrate’, who had worked tirelessly against these societies in the Clare area. [William] McDermott substantiated O’Gorman’s account, stating that Lord Gort [Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort] was staunchly opposed to such ‘strolling vagabonds’ in the neighbouring county of Galway. [Daniel] O’Connell continued discussion from previous meetings, moving that a clergyman be appointed in each parish to oversee the completion of the census; reporting census returns from various counties including Meath, Longford, Roscommon, Donegal and Derry. He also reported the findings of the committee appointed to aid the family of the recently deceased [Edward] Hay. Refers to the setting up of a subscription to which members could contribute, and a vote of thanks to Mr Finn of the Feinaglian School, Jervis Street, Dublin for his offer to educate three of Hay’s sons free of charge. Also refers to the voting in of two presbyterian members, Robert Rownan and Thomas Jordan, and the importance of attendees restraining themselves ‘from all manner of sectarian feelings’. Further to his previous criticisms of the commission of education, O’Connell stated that while he did not have an issue with the aim of the inquiry or commissioners such as Frankland Lewis, he took exception to the ‘ridiculous’ and ‘offensive’ interrogations of catholics at Maynooth College, County Kildare, by Leslie Foster: ‘I do not think there is to be a greater Dr Faustus to be met with any where of little intellect and great pretention than the aforesaid Leslie Foster’.

EXTENT:

1 item; 64pp

DATE(S):

11 Nov 1826

DATE EARLY:

1826

DATE LATE:

1826

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:

no original number

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