Irish Self-Governance Quotes
The Catholic majority was politically dominated by the Protestant minority in Ireland and the English Parliament generally sided with and supported the Protestants. O’Connell was open to Ireland being a part of the British Empire if it was the majority Catholic Ireland that was a part of the Empire.
The “Defenders” were the Catholic terrorists who along with their Protestant Orange Order counterpart were in sporadic acts of violence and terrorism with no military objective. The French Army was not to sail for Ireland where they would link up with The Defenders and take Ireland from the English. The invasion failed when terrible weather forced the French troop ships carrying more than 45,000 invading soldiers to cut their anchor cables and return to France.
