Catholic emancipation and the movement for repeal
I. The trans-Atlantic age of reform
| 1787 | Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade |
| 1788 | Dolbeen's Act |
| 1807 | Abolition Act |
| 1823 | Anti-slavery Society |
| 1828 |
repeal of the Test Act |
| 1829 | Catholic Emancipation |
| 1832 | the Great Reform Act |
| 1833 | abolition of slavery |
| 1834 |
New Poor Law |
| 1846 | repeal of the Corn Laws/ free trade |
| 1848-54 | responsible government granted to Canadian colonies |
II. The Liberator
Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847)
Catholic
Association (1824/5)
Thomas Wyse
Catholic rent
mobilization of parish priests
40-shilling
freeholders: 85,000 Catholic
tenants
1826 election:
Waterford (Beresford family)
1828
election: Clare
Catholic emancipation (1829)
Wellington and Peel
compromise: 80% of the Irish
electorate
disenfranchised
> Documents: O'Connell to his wife (March 1829);
the Roman Catholic Relief Act; legislation restricting the county
franchise in Ireland (1829)
party
politics
balance of power
Irish blocs
constitutional nationalism
long-term
effects of the emancipation movement
Catholic
emancipation cartoon by Tregear (1829).
III.
Repeal
"pragmatic reformism"
first repeal bill (1834)
Repeal
Association (1840)
what was repeal?
monster meetings
Tara (1843)
Tory reaction (Peel)
Clontarf
(1843)