Above : John Dillon, Fled To America

There was an attempt to rise in Munster. The trials of O’Brien and Meagher had ended in a disagreement of the jury and the discharge of the two prisoners who were therefore free to develop their plans. A new paper, The Felon, of even more revolutionary tendency than The United Irishman appeared. The suppression of this was the first of the final blows struck by Government against the organisation. It was followed up in July by the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and a proclamation ordering the arrest of the principal leaders.

Above : Picture Of Sir Robert Peel

The social life of Dublin suffered severely by the withdrawal of the Parliament. Peers and commoners took up their residence in London during the sessions, spending the rest of the year in their country estates. The stately mansions in which they had lived remained unoccupied, until finally let for public offices or charitable institutions. Many even sank to the condition of tenement houses.