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A certain leniency in the entry regulations to the legal profession, combined with the availability of education on the Continent for those who could afford it, produced a number of successful Catholic lawyers, of whom the most eminent was Daniel O’Connell. To paraphrase Joyce, it became possible for some Irish Catholics to achieve a relatively prosperous domicile by silence and cunning.
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966–1995 and the Search for Peace
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