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See also:RICHARD LALOR See also:SHEIL (1791-1851) , Irish politician and writer, was See also:born at Drumdowney, See also:Tipperary, on the 17th of See also:August 1791 . His See also:father, See also:Edward See also:Sheil, had acquired consider-able See also:wealth in See also:Spain, and owned an See also:estate in Tipperary . The son was taught See also:French and Latin by the See also:Abbe de Grimeau, a French refugee . He was then sent to a school in See also:Kensington, See also:London, presided over by another emigre, M. de See also:Broglie . In See also:October 1804 he was removed to Stonyhurst See also:college, See also:Lancashire, and in See also:November 1807 entered Trinity College, See also:Dublin, where he specially distinguished himself in the debates of the See also:Historical Society . After taking his degree in 1811 he entered See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and was admitted to the Irish See also:bar in 1814 . His See also:play of See also:Adelaide, or the Emigrants, was played at the See also:Crow See also:Street See also:theatre, Dublin, on the 19th of See also:February 1814, with See also:complete success, and on the 23rd of May 1816 it was performed at Covent See also:Garden . The Apostate, produced at the latter theatre on the 3rd of May 1817, firmly established his reputation as a dramatist . His See also:principal other plays are Bellamira (written in 1818), Evadne (1819), Huguenot, produced in 1822, and Montini (1820) . In 1822 he began, along with W . H . See also:Curran, to contribute to the New Monthly See also:Magazine a See also:series of graphic and racy papers entitled Sketches of the Irish Bar .
These were edited by M
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W
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See also:Savage in 1855 in two volumes, under the See also:title of Sketches Legal and See also:Political
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Sheil was one of the principal founders of the See also:Catholic Association in 1823 and See also:drew up the See also:petition for inquiry into the mode of administering the See also:laws in See also:Ireland, which was presented in that See also:year to both Houses of See also:Parliament
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In 1825 Sheil accompanied O'Connell to London to protest against the suppression of the Catholic Association
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The protest was unsuccessful, but, although nominally dissolved, the association continued its propaganda after the defeat of the Catholic See also:Relief See also:Bill in 1825; and Sheil was one of O'Connell's leading supporters in the agitation persistently carried on till Catholic emancipation was granted in 1829
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In the same year he was returned to Parliament for Milborne See also:Port, and in 1831 for See also:Louth
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He took a prominent See also:part in all the debates See also:relating to Ireland, and although he was greater as a See also:platform orator than as a debater, he gradually won the somewhat reluctant admiration of the See also:House
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In August 1839 he became See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:board of See also:trade in See also:Lord See also:Melbourne's See also:ministry
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After the See also:accession of Lord See also:
See also:Torrens M`Cullagh (2 vols., 1855)
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His Speeches were edited in 1845 by See also: |
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