Gallery: The campaign for Catholic Emancipation, 1823–1829

The cartoon depicts the capitulation of British politicians in the face of Catholic agitation. Wellington is shown kissing the Pope’s toe and professi [...]

Anti-Emancipation cartoon, depicting Wellington, Peel and the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Lyndhurst (John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, [...]

Cartoon of 1829 showing Wellington and Peel forcing Emancipation down the throat of a reluctant John Bull.

Published in 1809, after the original by Sir William Beechy.

Peel had considerable experience of governing Ireland. As Conservative prime minister in 1845–6, his secret purchase of Indian corn helped prevent wid [...]

His success in Clare brought the issue of Emancipation to the fore and was an important factor in influencing the British government to grant emancipa [...]

Half-length portrait of Daniel O'Connell, showing a scroll in his right hand. The original also has his coat of arms and facsimile of his autograph. D [...]

This Dublin cartoon, which is aimed at Irish Protestant sympathisers, lampoons the reception Daniel O’Connell received following his 1828 Clare by-ele [...]

In spite of the size and importance of the city of Dublin, its corporation remained almost exclusively Protestant. The subject of this 1821 cartoon is [...]

Cartoon by Thomas Howell Jones, February 1829. It is a rather hostile depiction of O’Connell’s successful emancipation campaign of 1829. He is shown l [...]

Contemporary engraved portrait of Daniel O’Connell, with a signature specimen.