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I found you split up into local sections. I have levelled all those pigmy fences and thrown you into an imperial union… [24] Graham Wallas (1895). "O'Connor, Feargus". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol.41. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p.847. For anyone who has found value in my work and would like to make a donation towards it being able to continue, you can do so at Buy Me A Coffee here: Feargus Edward O'Connor (18 July 1796 – 30 August 1855) was an Irish Chartist leader and advocate of the Land Plan, which sought to provide smallholdings for the labouring classes. A highly charismatic figure, O'Connor was admired for his energy and oratory, but was criticised for alleged egotism. His newspaper Northern Star (1837–1852) was widely read among workers (and read aloud in taverns), becoming the voice of the Chartist movement. [1]

On the surface these films seem poles apart. Yet Sean extracts some cleverly hidden messages from each which tell us something about subjects we’ve got into many times before in this series - Natural Law, consent, fair warning, tacit approval, consequentialism and critical thinking. I found you weak as the mountain heather bending before the gentle breeze. I am leaving you strong as the oak that stands the raging storms. In April 1848, a new Chartist petition was presented to Parliament with six million signatures. O'Connor accepted a declaration by the police that the Chartists could not march en masse with their petition from a mass meeting on Kennington Common. He made this decision to avoid bloodshed – he feared soldiers shooting down Chartists, as they had at Newport. An investigating committee in Parliament concluded that the petition contained not quite 2 million genuine signatures – it is unlikely, however, that the clerks could have counted this many signatures in the 17 hours they spent examining the petition. [ citation needed]Here’s the fourth and final episode in this series, taking an entirely new approach to the fabled ‘second Summer of Love’, the mainstream’s own term for the emerging Acid House/ Rave scene of 1988. A man under huge pressure, O'Connor began to drink heavily. [39] In July 1849, the House of Commons finally voted on the People's Charter, and rejected it by 222 votes to 17. In 1850 O'Connor once more made a motion in favour of the Charter, but would not be heard. The tragedy that was O'Connor's story was nearing its end. Faced with the declining strength of Chartism after the defeats of 1842, O'Connor turned to the idea of settling working people on the land. While in prison, he had advocated just such a scheme in the Northern Star under the heading "Letters to the Irish Landlords". In 1835, he had given notice of his intention to introduce a bill to modify the rights of Irish tenants moved in Parliament. [26] He later said his bill would have sought

Much of his early life was spent on his family's estates in Ireland, which included Dangan Castle, the childhood home of the Duke of Wellington. [4] He was educated mainly at Portarlington Grammar School and had some elementary schooling in England. [5] When the Chartist petition with 1,283,000 signatures was rejected by Parliament in summer 1839, tension grew, culminating in the Newport Rising. O'Connor was not involved in the planning of this event, though he must have known that there was a mood for rebellion among Chartists. He was a dangerous man to the authorities, and a sentence of 18 months in York Castle was passed on him in May 1840. In his farewell message, he made clear what he had done for the movement: From 1833 O'Connor had spoken to working men's organisations and agitated in factory areas for the "Five Cardinal Points of Radicalism," which were five of the six points later embodied in the People's Charter. [15] In 1837 he founded at Leeds, Yorkshire, a radical newspaper, the Northern Star, and worked with others for a radical Chartism through the London Democratic Association. O'Connor was the Leeds representative of the London Working Men's Association (LWMA). He travelled Britain speaking at meetings, and was one of the most popular Chartist orators; some Chartists named their children after him. [16] He was at various points arrested, tried and imprisoned for his views, receiving an 18-month sentence in 1840. He also became involved in internal struggles within the movement.Armytage, W.H.G., (1961) Heavens below: Utopian experiments in England 1560–1960. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961. p. 235.

The trial of Feargus O'Connor, Esq., barrister-at-law, and fifty-eight others at Lancaster: on a charge of sedition, conspiracy, tumult, and riot (1843) online

I found you knowing your country but on the map. I leave you with its position engraven upon your hearts. Degree Inversion – 23 May, 2022 | Good Vibrations We live in a satanically inverted society where if you want the truth about anything, best advice is to take whatever representation of it is offered through mainstream and establishment sources and flip it completely on its head. James Epstein, "Feargus O’Connor and the Northern Star", International Review of Social History 21 (1976) Feargus O'Connor was born on 18 July 1796 [2] in Connorville house, near Castletown-Kinneigh in west County Cork, into a prominent Irish Protestant family. He was originally christened Edward Bowen O'Connor, but his father chose to call him Feargus. [3] His father was Irish nationalist politician Roger O'Connor, who like his uncle Arthur O'Connor was active in the United Irishmen. His elder brother Francis became a general in Simón Bolívar's army of liberation in South America. Rabbit Hole correctness is also a problem. Much in here I don't believe in or I have discovered other Rabbit Holes that are not in this book.

Fryer, Peter. "Cuffay, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/71636. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

O'Connor was a superb public speaker. He expressed defiance, determination and hope, and flavoured these speeches with comic similes and anecdotes. [21] He looked the part of a popular leader, too. His physique was to his advantage: over six feet, muscular and massive, the "model of a Phoenician Hercules". [22] There is no doubt that the working people who heard O'Connor at these great meetings in the north of England in the late 1830s adored him. Stop for a moment and take a look at the world around you. Does everything seem normal? Or is it all upside down? Do you think this is happening just by chance? And if it isn't, wouldn't you like to know what is really going on? 180 Degrees – Unlearn the lies you've been taught to believe. 180˚ After the failure of his Land Plan, O'Connor's behaviour became increasingly erratic, culminating in an assault on three MPs and a mental breakdown, from which he did not recover. After his death three years later at the age of 59, 40,000 people witnessed the funeral procession.