Editing Daniel O'Connell (section)

===Disavowal of violence===
Consistent with the position he had taken publicly in relation to the rebellions of 1798 and 1803, O'Connell focused on parliamentary representation and popular, but peaceful, demonstration to induce change. "No political change", he offered, "is worth the shedding of a single drop of human blood".<ref name="Boylan1998">{{cite book | last = Boylan | first = Henry | year = 1998 | title = A Dictionary of Irish Biography | edition = 3rd | page = 306 | location = Dublin | publisher = Gill and Macmillan | isbn = 0-7171-2945-4 }}</ref> His critics, however, were to see in his ability to mobilise the Irish masses an intimation of violence. It was a standing theme with O'Connell that if the British establishment did not reform the governance of Ireland, Irishmen would start to listen to the "counsels of violent men".<ref name="Boylan1998" />

O'Connell insisted on his loyalty, presenting [[George IV]] on his visit to Ireland in 1821 with a laurel crown on bended knee.<ref name="Luby 1870 418" />{{rp|459}}  In contrast to his later successor [[Charles Stewart Parnell]] (although like O'Connell, himself a landlord), O'Connell was also consistent in his defence of property.<ref name="Bew and Maune" /> Yet he was willing to defend those accused of political crimes and of agrarian outrages. In his last notable court appearance, the [[Doneraile conspiracy]] trials of 1829, O'Connell saved several tenant [[Whiteboys]] from the gallows.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gallagher |first=Paul |date=2017 |title=O'Connell – the Barrister |url=https://www.ijsj.ie/assets/uploads/Gallagher.pdf |journal=Irish Judicial Studies Journal |volume=1 |issue=17 |pages=(70–89) 84–87}}</ref>