re: #644 iossarian

Eh….

Though Catholic Emancipation was achieved in 1829, in large part by Daniel O’Connell, largely eliminating legal discrimination against Catholics (around 75% of Ireland’s population), Jews and Dissenters, O’Connell’s long-term goals of Repeal of the 1801 Union and Home Rule were never achieved. The Home Rule movement served to define the divide between most nationalists (often Catholics), who sought the restoration of an Irish Parliament, and most unionists (often Protestants), who were afraid of being a minority in a Catholic-dominated Irish Parliament and tended to support continuing union with Britain. Unionists and Home-Rule advocates countered each other during the career of Charles Stuart Parnell, a repealer, and onwards.