A year later, utterly defeated by O'Connell, Peel was introducing the Catholic Relief Bill in the Commons.
Wellington had it for his task to induce, or rather frighten the king to assent.

Ireland not only emancipated the Catholics, she went on to emancipate the Dissenters, a service of freedom of conscience which is too often forgotten.
The Tithe System was similarly declared to be part of the fabric of the Constitution, to be upheld at the point of the bayonet.

Scythe in hand, the Irish peasant proclaimed that it must go.

It went.

Still more fundamental was the existence of the Protestant Established Church.