The story of the Catholic struggle for rights is one that Antonia Fraser has always wanted to write. Having converted to Catholicism at the age of 14, she has had a lifelong fascination with Catholic history. Her Pakenham forebears were Irish landowners belonging to the Protestant Ascendancy, so she has a foot in both camps of the Catholic question.
17 May 2018, The Tablet
Antonia Fraser details the hard struggle for Catholic emancipation
A contemporary portrait of the nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell.
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