Since 1691 and the end of the Williamite war, Ireland had been controlled by a Protestant Ascendancy on behalf of the British Crown, governing the majority Catholic population via a form of institutionalised sectarianism known as the Penal Laws. As the century progressed, progressive elements among the ruling class were inspired by the example of the American Revolution and sought to form common cause with the Catholic populac ...

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Irish Rebellion of 1798, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Background, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Society of United Irishmen, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Government Crackdown and Counter Revolution, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Plan, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Outbreak of the Rebellion, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - The Rebellion Spreads, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Atrocities, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - French Landing, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Aftermath, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Legacy of 1798, Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Sources

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The United Irishmen was a staunchly non-sectarian body which sought to unite all Irishmen, regardless of religion or descent. Many among their ranks were former Defenders, a term applied to many loosely connected, exclusively Catholic, agrarian resistance groups. Many of these men, as well as their Presbyterian counterparts in Ulster, had been shaped by the sectarianism that was prevalent in eighteenth century Ireland, and it was no mean feat to persuade Catholic, Protestant and Diss ...

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Society of the United Irishmen, Society of the United Irishmen - Foundation, Society of the United Irishmen - 1798 Rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - The United Irishmen and Sectarianism, Society of the United Irishmen - After the rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - External link

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The United Irishmen was a staunchly non-sectarian body and sought to unite all Irishmen, regardless of religion or descent. Many among their ranks were former Defenders, a term applied to many loosely connected, exclusively Catholic, agrarian groups. Many of these men, as well as their Presbyterian counterparts in Ulster, had been shaped by the sectarianism that was prevalent in eighteenth century Ireland, and it was no mean feat to persuade Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter to put aside their differences and view each other simply a ...

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Society of the United Irishmen, Society of the United Irishmen - Foundation, Society of the United Irishmen - 1798 Rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - Politics, Society of the United Irishmen - External link

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Bantry Bay is a bay located in southwest Ireland, in County Cork. The bay runs approximately 35 km (22 miles) from northeast to southwest into the Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 3-to-4 km (1.8-to-2.5 miles) wide at the head, and 10 km (6 miles) wide at the entrance. The town of Bantry, at the head of the bay, is notable as being the place where the first attempt to land was made by Wolfe Tone in 1796, when he brought over French soldiers to assist in the Irish Rebellion ...

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• Bantry Bay - Geographical stats

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They held their first meeting on October 18, 1791 in Belfast and passed the following three resolutions: That the weight of English influence in the Government of this country is so great as to require a cordial union among all the people of Ireland, to maintain that balance which is essential to the preservation of our liberties and the extension of our commerce That the sole constitutional mode by which this influence can be opposed is by a complete and radical reform of the people in Parliament That no reform is just which does not include Iri ...

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Society of the United Irishmen, Society of the United Irishmen - Foundation, Society of the United Irishmen - 1798 Rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - Politics, Society of the United Irishmen - External link

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The Act of Union 1800 merged the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain (itself a merger of England and Scotland under the Act of Union 1707) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801. The Act was passed by both the British and Irish parliaments. The Irish parliament had been given a large measure of independence by the Constitution of 1782, after centuries of being subordinated to the English (and later, British) Parliament. Thus, many members had guarded its autonomy jealously, i ...

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1798 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1798 - Events. January 22 - Coupe d'état in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). Unitarian De ...

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• 1798 - Events
• 1798 - Ongoing events
• 1798 - Births
• 1798 - Deaths

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A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) was an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime, and punishing them, without benefit of a trial. The United States Constitution forbids both the federal and state governments from enacting bills of attainder, in Article 1, Sections 9 and 10, respectively. They were abolished in the United Kingdom in 1870. The word "attainder", meaning "taintedness", is part of English common law. Under English law, a criminal cond ...

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• Bill of attainder - American usage
• Bill of attainder - The Great Act of Attainder

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was created on 1 January 1801 by the merger of the Kingdom of Great Britain (itself a merger of the former Kingdoms of Scotland and England in 1707) and the Kingdom of Ireland. It ended upon Irish independence on 6 December 1922 when the Anglo-Irish Treaty created the Irish Free State. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Origins. The merger followed the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the crisis over the mental health of King George III, given that both ...

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• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Origins
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - The Deal
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - The new United Kingdom
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Legacy
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - List of monarchs

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Daniel O'Connell (August 6, 1775 – May 15, 1847), known as The Liberator or The Emancipator, was Ireland's predominant politician in the first half of the nineteenth century. He campaigned for Catholic Emancipation and Repeal of the Union between Ireland and Great Britain. He is remembered in Ireland as the founder of a non-violent form of Irish nationalism, but also for the channelling of Irish politics along sectarian lines by the mobilisation of the Catholic community as a political force. Daniel O'Con ...

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• Daniel O'Connell - Early Life
• Daniel O'Connell - Campaigning for Catholic Emancipation
• Daniel O'Connell - Campaign for Repeal of the Union
• Daniel O'Connell - Political Beliefs and Programme
• Daniel O'Connell - Death and Legacy
• Daniel O'Connell - Footnotes
• Daniel O'Connell - O'Connell quotes
• Daniel O'Connell - See Also

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The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a state located in Western Europe, from 1707 to 1800. It was created by the merging of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to create a single kingdom encompassing the whole of the island of Great Britain. A new, single parliament and government, based in Westminster in London, controlled the new kingdom. The two former kingdoms had shared the same monarch since Ki ...

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• Kingdom of Great Britain - Monarchs of Great Britain

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The History of Ireland is the story of a large island in the north-west of Europe and is heavily influenced by the concurrent History of Britain, its larger neighbour to the east. The first humans inhabited Ireland from around 7500 BC and were later responsible for major Neolithic sites such as Newgrange. Following the arrival of St. Patrick and other Christian missionaries in the mid-fifth century, a syncretized form of Christianity subsumed the indigenous pagan religion by A.D. 600. This led to a golden age of monastic Irish writing and ar ...

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• History of Ireland - Early history: 8000 BC–AD 400
• History of Ireland - Early Christian Ireland 400–800
• History of Ireland - Early medieval era 800–1166
• History of Ireland - Later Medieval Ireland
• History of Ireland - The Coming of the Normans 1167–1185
• History of Ireland - The Lordship of Ireland 1185–1254
• History of Ireland - Gaelic Resurgence Norman Decline 1254–1360
• History of Ireland - Reformation 1536–1654 and Protestant Ascendancy 1654–1801
• History of Ireland - Re-conquest and rebellion
• History of Ireland - Civil Wars and Penal Laws
• History of Ireland - Colonial Ireland
• History of Ireland - Union with Great Britain 1801-1922
• History of Ireland - Home Rule Easter 1916 and the War of Independence
• History of Ireland - Free State/Republic 1922-present
• History of Ireland - Northern Ireland
• History of Ireland - Footnotes

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"Ulster-Scots" is a term used to refer to the people descended from Presbyterians of Scotland who live in Ulster, Ireland. "Scotch-Irish" is the usual term in the United States; "Scots-Irish" is also used to refer to the same people, and is not to be confused with Irish-Scots, i.e. Irish immigrants to Scotland. They are largely descendant from the Northumbrians of the the Scottish Borders Country, and the Brythonic-speaking Britons of the Scottish Lowlands. The migration of Scots to Ulster occurred mainly during t ...

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The British Empire was the world's first global power and the largest empire in history. It was a product of the European Age of Discovery that began with the global maritime empires of Portugal and Spain in the late 15th century. By 1921 the British Empire held sway over a population of about 470–570 million people—roughly a quarter of the world's population—and covered about 14.3 million square miles (more than 37 million km²), almost a third of the world's total land area. Though it has since almost completely disappeared, t ...

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• British Empire - Background: The English and Scottish Empires
• British Empire - The Anglo-Norman Kingdom
• British Empire - Growth of the overseas empire
• British Empire - Henry VIII and the rise of the Royal Navy
• British Empire - The Elizabethan era
• British Empire - The Stuart era
• British Empire - Scottish Empire
• British Empire - Colonization
• British Empire - Free trade and informal empire
• British Empire - British East India Company
• British Empire - Expansion
• British Empire - Collapse
• British Empire - Breakdown of Pax Britannica
• British Empire - Britain and the New Imperialism
• British Empire - British Colonial Policy
• British Empire - Britain and the Scramble for Africa
• British Empire - Home Rule in white-settler colonies
• British Empire - The impact of the First World War
• British Empire - The end of British rule in Ireland
• British Empire - Decolonisation and Decline
• British Empire - Extent
• British Empire - Africa
• British Empire - The Americas and Atlantic
• British Empire - Antarctica
• British Empire - Asia
• British Empire - Europe
• British Empire - Pacific
• British Empire - Extent after World War II
• British Empire - Africa
• British Empire - The Americas and Atlantic
• British Empire - Asia
• British Empire - Europe
• British Empire - Territories Lost by British Empire before 1921
• British Empire - Remaining Overseas Territories
• British Empire - Overseas Territories possessing substantial self-government
• British Empire - Other Overseas Territories
• British Empire - Crown Dependencies in British Isles Outside UK & EU
• British Empire - Personal Unions
• British Empire - Kingdom of England 927 - 1707
• British Empire - Kingdom of Great Britain 1707 - 1801
• British Empire - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801 - 1927
• British Empire - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1927 - present

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"Atlantic Revolutions" is a cover term for a wave of late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century revolutions associated with the Enlightenment. American Revolution (1775-1783) Revolt of Dutch Patriots (1785) French Revolution (1789-1799) Haitian Revolution (1791-1802) Polish War in the defence of constitution (1792) and Kosciuszko Uprising (1794) Batavian Revolution (1795-1801) Irish Rebellion of 1798 Latin American wars of liberation May Rev ...

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• Atlantic Revolutions - Individuals and Movements

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They held their first meeting on October 18, 1791 in Belfast and passed the following three resolutions: That the weight of English influence in the Government of this country is so great as to require a cordial union among all the people of Ireland, to maintain that balance which is essential to the preservation of our liberties and the extension of our commerce That the sole constitutional mode by which this influence can be opposed is by a complete and radical reform of the people in Parliament That no reform is just which does not include Iri ...

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Society of the United Irishmen, Society of the United Irishmen - Foundation, Society of the United Irishmen - 1798 Rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - The United Irishmen and Sectarianism, Society of the United Irishmen - After the rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - External link

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The movement went underground from the mid-1790s as they became more determined to force a revolt against British rule. They forged links with the revolutionary French government and a French fleet set sail for Ireland in 1796, under General Hoche. It spent days in sight of the Cork coast, but weather conditions meant it could not land. The British government hanged and transported many of the society's leaders in response. With promises of French aid the United Irishmen instigated a rising against British rule in 1798, the rebellion of 1798 ...

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Society of the United Irishmen, Society of the United Irishmen - Foundation, Society of the United Irishmen - 1798 Rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - Politics, Society of the United Irishmen - External link

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The movement went underground from the mid-1790s as they became more determined to force a revolt against British rule. They forged links with the revolutionary French government and a French fleet set sail for Ireland in 1796, under General Hoche. It spent days in sight of the Cork coast, but weather conditions meant it could not land. The British government hanged and transported many of the society's leaders in response. With promises of French aid the United Irishmen instigated a rising against British rule in 1798, the rebellion of 1798 ...

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Society of the United Irishmen, Society of the United Irishmen - Foundation, Society of the United Irishmen - 1798 Rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - The United Irishmen and Sectarianism, Society of the United Irishmen - After the rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - External link

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The United Irishmen were severely persecuted in the years following the rebellion although a final attempt to revive their fortunes was made in 1803 by Robert Emmet. The British Government sought to avoid a repetition of the non-sectarian vision of Irish unity of the United Irishmen by savage repression of republicanism, along with tolerance of sectarianism. Political activity in the first half of the 19th century, was largely based on these religious divisions such as Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, and the Tithe War. Catholics continued to be discriminated under th ...

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Society of the United Irishmen, Society of the United Irishmen - Foundation, Society of the United Irishmen - 1798 Rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - The United Irishmen and Sectarianism, Society of the United Irishmen - After the rebellion, Society of the United Irishmen - External link

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Irish nationalism - Roots. Ireland has been subject to varying degrees of rule from England since the late 12th century. (See Norman Ireland). The Gaelic Irish resisted this conquest through military and other means, but were organised in small independent lordships and did not have a common political goal such as an independent Irish state. Conflict over the English presence was exacerbated by the Protestant Reformation in England, which introduced a religious element to the Tudor re-conquest of Ireland. Another central feature of future Anglo-Irish conflict was the continuing dispossession of Irish Catho ...

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Irish nationalism, Irish nationalism - History, Irish nationalism - Roots, Irish nationalism - Early Nationalism - Grattan to O'Connell, Irish nationalism - Home Rule and Catholic Nationalism, Irish nationalism - Cultural Nationalism, Irish nationalism - Militant Separatism and Irish Independence, Irish nationalism - The Free State, Irish nationalism - Northern Ireland, Irish nationalism - Present, Irish nationalism - Ideology of Irish Nationalism, Irish nationalism - Irish nationalist organisations

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