In his last years, in the 1840s, Jemmy Hope, who had survived both the Battle of Antrim and his attempt with Thomas Russell to raise the North in support of Robert Emmet's plans for a new insurrection in 1803, chaired meetings of the Repeal Association. Hope had his doubts about the nature of the movement Daniel O'Connell launched in the wake of Catholic Emancipation in 1829 to reverse the Acts of Union and to restore the Kingdom of Ireland under the Constitution of 1782. The Presbyterian districts in the north in which he believed "the republican spirit" had run strongest were never again to support an Irish parliament.