O’Connell’s abandonment of the Clontarf meeting destroyed the Repeal movement

Evidence

Faced with the likelihood of bloodshed, O’Connell called off the meeting. He sent riders out from Dublin to inform people already on their way of the decision and warn them against even the slightest violent response. Although few knew it at the time, O’Connell’s surrender marked the collapse of the Repeal agitation. Later it was said that Irish independence had been won at Clontarf and lost there a thousand years later. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 115

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Democratic co-optation destroyed the original Populist party — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 63; By the 1840s the Repeal movement was led by established Irish-American middle classes — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 82

Broader Connections

• By the 1840s the Repeal movement was led by established Irish-American middle classes #qualifies (0.75) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 82
• Democratic co-optation destroyed the original Populist party #exemplifies (0.72) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 63