Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same time to recognize the Catholic Hierarchy. So Cardinal Cullen, resolved to accept nothing less than the full measure of his demands, orders the Catholic members of Parliament to side with the Tories to defeat the bill of the Ministers. Gladstone falls by the ingratitude of those whose chief benefactor for five years he has been; nor are the students of Dublin sufficiently free from bigotry, or sufficiently under the influence of independent thought, to refrain from insulting the statesman by burning him in effigy...