Chase, Malcolm. Chartism: A New History ( Manchester University Press, 2007), A standard scholarly history of the entire movement excerpt When the Chartist petition with 1,283,000 signatures was rejected by Parliament in summer 1839, tension grew, culminating in the Newport Rising. O'Connor was not involved in the planning of this event, though he must have known that there was a mood for rebellion among Chartists. He was a dangerous man to the authorities, and a sentence of 18 months in York Castle was passed on him in May 1840. In his farewell message, he made clear what he had done for the movement: Ray Boston (1 January 1971). British Chartists in America: 1839 - 1900. Manchester University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-7190-0465-0 . Retrieved 3 June 2013. From 1833 O'Connor had spoken to working men's organisations and agitated in factory areas for the "Five Cardinal Points of Radicalism," which were five of the six points later embodied in the People's Charter. [15] In 1837 he founded at Leeds, Yorkshire, a radical newspaper, the Northern Star, and worked with others for a radical Chartism through the London Democratic Association. O'Connor was the Leeds representative of the London Working Men's Association (LWMA). He travelled Britain speaking at meetings, and was one of the most popular Chartist orators; some Chartists named their children after him. [16] He was at various points arrested, tried and imprisoned for his views, receiving an 18-month sentence in 1840. He also became involved in internal struggles within the movement.

Now, about the spiritual parts of the book, he maybe went a bit too far -at least for non religious/spiritual people, but then again it was done on a goodwill basis. I like the fact that he tries to provide solutions instead of just informing us about it, even though it is questionable the how applicable these solutions are. I found you weak as the mountain heather bending before the gentle breeze. I am leaving you strong as the oak that stands the raging storms. O'Connor was jailed; while in prison he continued to write for the Northern Star. He was now the unquestioned leader of Chartism. It was at this time that the song Lion of Freedom was published in his honour. It was widely sung at Chartist meetings. Lovett, meanwhile, left the movement, full of anger at O'Connor but O'Connor's energy and commitment was to keep Chartism alive for the rest of the 1840s. After the failure of his Land Plan, O'Connor's behaviour became increasingly erratic, culminating in an assault on three MPs and a mental breakdown, from which he did not recover. After his death three years later at the age of 59, 40,000 people witnessed the funeral procession.O'Connor's father Roger was notorious for his eccentric lifestyle. At one point Feargus and Francis decided to leave, stealing horses from their brother Roderic, travelling to London and asking to be taken in by family friend M.P. Francis Burdett. Burdett looked after them, and financed Feargus to run a farm in Ireland, but it was unsuccessful. [4] He studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, before inheriting his uncle's estate in 1820. He took no degree, [6] but was called to the Irish bar about 1820. Since he had to take an oath of allegiance to the crown to become a member of the Bar, his father disinherited him because he regarded it as inconsistent with the dignity of a descendant of the Kings of Ireland.

When Chartism again gained momentum O'Connor was elected in 1847 MP for Nottingham, and he organised the Chartist meeting on Kennington Common, London, in 1848. This meeting on 10 April proved a turning point: it was supposed to be followed by a procession. When the procession was ruled illegal, O'Connor asked the crowd to disperse, a decision contested by other radicals such as William Cuffay. [18] Chartist Movement [ edit ] Stop for a moment and take a look at the world around you. Does everything seem normal? Or is it all upside down? Do you think this is happening just by chance? And if it isn't, wouldn't you like to know what is really going on? 180 Degrees – Unlearn the lies you've been taught to believe. 180˚ O'Connor's first known public speech was made in 1822 at Enniskeen, County Cork, [7] denouncing landlords and the Protestant clergy. [4] During that year he composed a pamphlet State of Ireland. Around this time he was wounded in a fight with soldiers, perhaps as a member of the Whiteboys covert agrarian organisation. Going to London to escape arrest, he tried to make a living by writing. He produced five manuscripts at this time, but none were ever published. [5]Read, Donald; Glasgow, Eric (1961), Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist, Arnold, London, OCLC 1336335894 Her 2023 essay on how she met Cohen is here: https://www.geist.com/fact/essays/how-i-finally-met-leonard-cohen/

In April 1848, a new Chartist petition was presented to Parliament with six million signatures. O'Connor accepted a declaration by the police that the Chartists could not march en masse with their petition from a mass meeting on Kennington Common. He made this decision to avoid bloodshed – he feared soldiers shooting down Chartists, as they had at Newport. An investigating committee in Parliament concluded that the petition contained not quite 2 million genuine signatures – it is unlikely, however, that the clerks could have counted this many signatures in the 17 hours they spent examining the petition. [ citation needed] Epstein, James. "Feargus O’Connor and the Northern Star", International Review of Social History 21 (1976) onlineWe discuss the lies, gaslighting and military-grade psychological techniques used by governments and the mainstream media for decades to traumatise and mind-control the general population. Once the methods are known, they'll never work in the same way again. Faced with the declining strength of Chartism after the defeats of 1842, O'Connor turned to the idea of settling working people on the land. While in prison, he had advocated just such a scheme in the Northern Star under the heading "Letters to the Irish Landlords". In 1835, he had given notice of his intention to introduce a bill to modify the rights of Irish tenants moved in Parliament. [26] He later said his bill would have sought I found you split up into local sections. I have levelled all those pigmy fences and thrown you into an imperial union… [24] As well as re-invigorating the Chartist Movement, O'Connor's plans were a powerful answer to emigration schemes for working people. He declared that Great Britain could support its own population if its lands were properly cultivated. [29] In his book A Practical Work on the Management of Small Farms he set forth his plan of resettling surplus factory workers on smallholdings of two, three and four acres. He had no doubts of the yields obtainable under such spade-husbandry. Feargus O'Connor came into Parliament as a follower of Daniel O'Connell, and his speeches during this time were devoted mainly to the Irish question. He was sarcastically described by Fraser's Magazine as active, bustling, violent, a ready speaker, and the model of an Irish patriot, [8] but as one who did nothing, suggested nothing, and found fault with everything. [8] He voted with the radicals: for tax on property; for Thomas Attwood's motion for an inquiry into the conditions that prevailed in England; and in support of Lord Ashley's 1847 Factory Bill. He quarrelled with O'Connell, repudiating him for his practice of yielding to the Whigs, [9] and came out in favour of a more aggressive Repeal policy.

O'Connor considered that the "law of primogeniture is the eldest son of class legislation upon corruption by idleness". [27] At the same time, he was opposed to the state ownership of land: Ann reveals how Cohen met Baron Jacob Rothschild in London in 1959, and went on to warn of a “holocaust” coming for non-Jewish Gentiles. I found you knowing your country but on the map. I leave you with its position engraven upon your hearts. On 6 June 1848, the House of Commons investigation found that the National Land Company was an illegal scheme that would not fulfil the expectations held out to the shareholders and that the books had been imperfectly kept. [38] William Dobson (1856). History of the parliamentary representation of Preston: during the last hundred years. Dobson. pp.70– . Retrieved 3 June 2013.Kemnitz, Thomas Milton. "Approaches to the Chartist Movement: Feargus O'Connor and Chartist Strategy." Albion 5.1 (1973): 67–73. You must sign in to rate Listen to “GVP #213 – Feargus O'Connor Greenwood – 180-Degree Inversion” on Spreaker. The Lies You've Been Taught To Believe GVP #213 – Feargus O'Connor Greenwood The Alchemical Tech Revolution podcast can be found here - https://open.spotify.com/show/586BY1AxtHe8C7EK5TdE4c For anyone who has found value in my work and would like to make a donation towards it being able to continue, you can do so at Buy Me A Coffee here: This series has exposed many social engineering psy-ops in its time, but this is one that hits very close to home for myself and my guests, as we were all personally caught up in it.