O'Connell's Most Critical Meeting

If there were a comparable civil disobedience movement in the united states, it would be putting 20 or 30 million people into the streets in a single location. The powers that be have grown terrified af what o'connell is assembling. He cancels the meeting u he gets arrested. And the fact that he refuses to push the british government to force them to either put up or shut up, a lot of future irish actives se're going to see this as evidence that peaceful protest doesn't work.