It took long years of bitter struggle by Daniel OConnell to give the Catholic people the right to vote. He accomplished that with the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829. and sold his argument with the thundering expression that has lived throughout the ages. "That which is morally wrong. can never be politically right." In 1849. the main stay of the Irish tablethe humble potatofailed. and again the Irish faced obliteration. Yet. at the height of that awful time. with millions dying and millions emigrating. with England refusing to lift the trade barriers that would have brought relief. the faith that Patrick brought stayed in the forefront. and many a dying peasant pushed his precariously garnered food aside to wait for the coming of the priest. Irelands sons and daughters scattered throughout the world in 1849. but those who stayed behind carried on to make their land a better place to live. In 1867. the nation A2348 again went through the pangs of civil war. as brother fought brother and father fought son in the war for their independence.
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