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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Catholic emancipation"”.
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The Catholic emancipation movement and the Society of United Irishmen, 1788-1798
… For their support of James II in 1690, the Irish Catholics were gradually placed under a system of Penal Laws. These laws were completed in 1727 and were to remain in full effect for over half a century. Although not rigidly enforced, their existence made the Irish Catholics second-class citizens …
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Exporting radicalism within the empire: Scots Presbyterian political values in Scotland and British North America, c.1815-c.1850
… particular it examines attitudes in Scotland to Catholic emancipation, the Reform Act of 1832, the disestablishment of the national Churches, and the Chartist movement; and it considers agitation in Upper Canada and Nova Scotia for the disestablishment of the established Church and the …
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The parliamentary career of Michael Thomas Sadler, 1829-1833
… philosophy is outlined and his opposition to Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform is examined. The second section finds Sadler’s social and economic reforming activities the focus of attention. Although we move away from strictly constitutional issues the section explores Sadler’s …
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Engaging nuns: Exiled english convents and the politics of exclusion, 1590-1829
… spiritually and as contributors to the wider Catholic imaginary of post-Reformation England. This is here traced through the succession of crises, from the English Civil War to the Jacobite risings, in which these exiled communities of women religious contributed to Catholic images of their …
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Fiction and travel writing in Ireland, 1750-1840
… as tourist destinations from around the time of Catholic Emancipation, and my textual examination of fiction and non-fiction travel narratives shows the writers’ increasing interest in writing about the process of travel.
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The Duke of Wellington and the people, 1819-1832
… and favours. They contributed to debates on Catholic Emancipation, Parliamentary Reform and Economic distress. A sizeable minority wrote anonymous, threatening letters in an attempt to intimidate Wellington, while others gave the duke their wholehearted support.These letters reveal the …
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Continental Organists and Catholic Church Music in Ireland, 1860-1960
… the middle of the twentieth century, the Irish catholic church recruited musicians from the continent to fill positions of organist and choirmaster in the country’s cathedrals and churches. Although Ireland had a rich monastic liturgical tradition in the middle ages, a series of conflicts, …
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Sing No Sad Songs for Me : A Study of the Influence of the Oxford Movement upon Christina Rossetti as Evidenced in Her Poetry
… Test and Corporation Acts and intensified with Catholic emancipation; the introduction in Parliament of the Church Temporalities Bill and the resulting suppression of ten Irish bishoprics was interpreted by many of England's religious leaders as apostasy on the part of the nation.</p> …
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The Activity and Influence of the Established Church in England, c. 1800-1837
This thesis examines the various ways in which the Church of England engaged with English politics and society from c. 1800 to 1837. Assessments of the early nineteenth-century Church of England remain coloured by a critique originating in radical anti-clerical polemics of the period and reinforced …