Keep in mind that the Catholic Emancipation Bill of 1929 was introduced into the British House of Commons, not by Daniel O'Connell, as so many people think, not by any Irish representatives, but by a man who gave us the Royal Irish Constabulary, Sir Robert Peel, a faithful servant of England, an implacable enemy of Ireland.

It was a well thought out and long desired game of clearing the Irish out of Ireland, of breaking their spirit, of killing their language and of making one section of them - the "respectable Cawtholic" section - the oppressor and enslavers and persecutors of all the others who would not renounce Irish Nationhood and become loyal slaves of the British Empire.

Catholic Emancipation, as it was called, was the beginning of the Great Massacre of 1847 and 1848. The first step towards that starvation and the extermination that accompanied it was the clause in the Catholic Relief Act of 1829 depriving of his right to vote every man whose rent was under £10 per annum, which meant that the vast majority of the Catholics of rural Ireland were "emancipated" by being reduced to the position of helots in their own land, and left at the mercy of the rapacious absentee landlords, who helped whole-heartedly (if they had hearts) in carrying out the British plan of starvation and extirpation when the time came.

Let it not be forgotten that O'Connell agreed to the clause in the Act which made slaves and outcasts of the Irish tenant farmers. Writing of the mean transaction, John Mitchel said:

"It (the Emancipation Act) was accompanied by a certain other Act, namely, for disfranchisement of all the forty-shilling freeholders in Ireland. Sir Robert Peel was detriment at least not to yield this point. It was the forty-shilling freeholders who had carried O'Connell triumphantly to the head of the poll in Clare; and by destroying that whole class of voters, Peel hoped very reasonably, not only to render the remaining voters more amenable to corrupt influences, but also to take away the motive, which had heretofore existed, for granting leases to small farmers, and thus, in good time, to turn those independent farmers into tenants at will. He has his own profound reasons for this - which will fully appear hereafter."