O'Connell begins his public career in the Yeomanry called out to put down the insurrectionary movement of Emmet.

Isaac Butt comes first into note as the orator of the Orange Party in Dublin.
Parnell himself steps out of a Tory milieu and tradition into the central tumult of agitation.

Wave after incoming wave of them, her conquerors were conquered.

"Once again," cried Parnell in the last public utterance of his life, "I am come to cast myself into the deep sea of the love of my people." In that deep sea a hundred diverse currents of blood have met and mingled; they have lost their individual drift to become part of the strong tide of national consciousness and national unity.

If Irish history is to be regarded as a test of racial superiority then Ireland emerges with the crown and garlands of victory.
We came, we the invaders, to dominate, and we remained to serve.