At the Hill of Tara (by tradition the inaugural seat of the High Kings of Ireland), on the feast-day of the Assumption, 15 August 1843, O'Connell gathered a crowd estimated in the hostile reporting of The Times as close to one million. It took O'Connell's carriage two hours to proceed through the throng, accompanied by a harpist playing Thomas Moore's "The Harp that once through Tara's Halls".
At the Hill of Tara (by tradition the inaugural seat of the High Kings of Ireland) on the feast-day of the Assumption 15 August 1843 O'Connell gathered a crowd estimated in the hostile reporting of The Times as close to one million It took O'Connell's carriage two hours to proceed through the throng accompanied by a harpist playing Thomas Moore's "The Harp that once through Tara's Halls"