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285: 22: 692: 1440:"We are a generous people; and yet we are told we must keep up a sectarian bitterness to the end; and the Protestant Ascendancy has been broken down, only to build Catholic Ascendancy on its ruins. Are we in earnest about our country at all or are we seeking to perpetuate our wretchedness by refusing the honest aid of Irishmen? Why should we throw unto the arms of England those children of Ireland who would be our most faithful allies, if we did not seek to disinherit them? " 2485: 2496: 316:, etc.), having previously held immense power in Ireland, became major targets of the crown and of more stridently anti-Irish members of the Ascendancy. With the defeat of Catholic attempts to regain power and lands in Ireland, a ruling class which became known later as the "Protestant Ascendancy" sought to ensure dominance with the passing of a number of laws to restrict the religious, political and economic activities of Catholics and to some extent, 2473: 538:
Ulster or on the outskirts of towns were more favourably placed than the owners of tracts of infertile bog in the west. In 1870 302 proprietors (1.5% of the total) owned 33.7% of the land, and 50% of the country was in the hands of 750 families of the Ascendency. At the other end of the scale, 15,527 (80.5%) owned between them only 19.3% of the land. 95% of the land of Ireland was calculated to be under minority control of those within the
989: 639: 232: 2506: 193:, or city-hall, where, having passed the touch of the corporation, so respectably stamped and vouched, it soon became current in parliament, and was carried back by the Speaker of the House of Commons in great pomp as an offering of homage from whence it came. The word is Ascendancy." This was then used by Catholics seeking further political reforms. 771:, while much of the population starved, over a million dying of hunger or associated diseases. Ireland remained a net exporter of food throughout most of the famine. About 20% of the population emigrated. The Encumbered Estates Act of 1849 was passed to allow landlords to sell mortgaged land, where a sale would be restricted because the land was 529:
in exchange for lands and other privileges. Records of these conversions were tracked in "Convert Rolls", which can be located through various online resources. Interestingly, early 20th century census records inform us that a fair number of Irish men and women who'd converted to the Anglican Church
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With the Protestant yeoman class void being filled by a newly rising "Catholic Ascendancy", the dozens of remaining Protestant large landowners were left isolated within the Catholic population without the benefit of the legal and social conventions upon which they had depended to maintain power and
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As a result, political, legal and economic power resided with the Ascendancy to the extent that by the mid-18th century, the greater part of the land in Ireland (97% in 1870) was owned by men who rented it out to tenant farmers rather than cultivating it themselves. Smaller landlords in the east, in
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until his death in January 1766, and Roman Catholics were morally obliged to support him. This provided the main political excuse for the new laws, but it was not entirely exclusive as there was no law against anyone converting to Protestantism. While a relatively small number of Catholics would
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between the 17th and 19th centuries, more often than not these "conversions" amounted to the alteration of paper work, rather than any changes in religious beliefs or practices. With job prospects and civil rights for Irish Catholics having grown quite grim since the mid-17th century, for some,
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between the mid 17th and mid 19th century actually returned to their original Catholic faith by the early 20th century. A similar phenomenon can also be observed with the return of "O" and "Mc" to surnames during the mid/late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period known to scholars as the
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converting to the Anglican Church was one of the few ways one could attempt to improve one's lot in life. A handful of members of formerly powerful Irish clans also chose to convert, learn English, swear fealty to the King, and perform roles on behalf of the Anglo-Irish of
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that included this line: "We feel ourselves peculiarly called upon to stand forward in the crisis to pray your majesty to preserve the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland inviolate ...." The corporation's resolution was a part of the debate over
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on 20 February 1782. George Ogle MP used it on 6 February 1786 in a debate on falling land values, saying that "When the landed property of the Kingdom, when the Protestant Ascendancy is at stake, I cannot remain silent."
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The abolition of the Irish Parliament was followed by economic decline in Ireland, and widespread emigration from among the ruling class to the new centre of power in London, which increased the number of
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The confidence of the Ascendancy was manifested towards the end of the 18th century by its adoption of a nationalist Irish, though still exclusively Protestant, identity and the formation in the 1770s of
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The phrase therefore was seen to apply across classes to rural landowners as well as city merchants. The Dublin resolution was disapproved of by a wide range of commentators, such as the
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was led by members of the Anglo-Irish class, some of whom feared the political implications of the impending union with Great Britain. Reformist and nationalist politicians such as
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As a consequence, the remnants of the Ascendancy were gradually displaced during the 19th and early 20th centuries through impoverishment, bankruptcy, the disestablishment of the
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of 1801 was passed partly in response to a perception that the bloodshed was provoked by the misrule of the Ascendancy, and partly from the expense involved.
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for the catholic middle classes from the 1780s, but could not persuade a majority of the Irish MPs to support him. After the forced recall of the liberal
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in 1829 meant that the Ascendancy now faced competition from prosperous Catholics in parliament and in the higher-level professional ranks such as the
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Any and all rewards not paid by the crown for alerting authorities of offences to be levied upon the Catholic populace within parish and county.
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claim and came to power briefly in London from 1710 to 1714. Also in 1750, the main Catholic Jacobite heir and claimant to the three thrones,
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Hayton, David. "Anglo-Irish Attitudes, Changing Perceptions of National Identity among the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland, C. 1690–1750."
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effectively gave Grattan a military force, and he was able to force Britain to concede a greater amount of self-rule to the Ascendancy.
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Ban on custody of orphans being granted to Catholics on pain of a ÂŁ500 fine that was to be donated to the Blue Coat hospital in Dublin.
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Prohibition on Catholics owning a horse valued at over ÂŁ5 (to keep horses suitable for military activity out of the majority's hands)
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and wielded a disproportionate amount of social, cultural and political influence in Ireland. The Ascendancy existed as a result of
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The process of Protestant Ascendancy was facilitated and formalized in the legal system after 1691 by the passing of various
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Exclusion of Catholics from most public offices (since 1607), Presbyterians were also barred from public office from 1707.
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Many members of the Ascendancy played a role in literary and artistic matters in 19th- and 20th-century Ireland, notably
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is accepted as having been an almost universal practice in Ireland and detrimental to the country's progress.
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then bought up a further 13 million acres (53,000 km) of farmland between 1885 and 1920 where the
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in 1795 by conservatives, parliament was effectively abandoned as a vehicle for change, giving rise to the
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Hill, Jacqueline R. "National Festivals, the State and 'Protestant Ascendancy' in Ireland, 1790–1829."
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When allowed, new Catholic churches were to be built from wood, not stone, and away from main roads.
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Irish Imperial Networks Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India
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in England and Ireland after 1688. They were Protestants who generally supported the Catholic
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Exclusion from the legal professions and the judiciary; repealed (respectively) 1793 and 1829.
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from 1652; rescinded 1662–1691; renewed 1691–1829, applying to the successive parliaments of
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Catholics barred from holding firearms or serving in the armed forces (rescinded by the
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Reform, though not complete, came in three main stages and was effected over 50 years:
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However, those protected by the Treaty were still excluded from public political life.
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The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: The Life of William Conolly, 1662–1729
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Reform of religious disabilities in 1778–82, allowing bishops, schools and convents.
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Ban on Catholics buying land under a lease of more than 31 years; repealed 1778.
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Restoration of political, professional and office-holding rights in 1793–1829.
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explores the modern legacy of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy on the island today.
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Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650-c. 1850
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1704, but seminary priests and Bishops were not able to do so until 1778.
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On a death by a Catholic, his legatee could benefit by conversion to the
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had already taken their part in Irish history. The government-sponsored
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Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690–1745: Imitation and Innovation
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Ban on converting from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism on pain of
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John Turpin (Autumn 1979). "William Orpen as Student and Teacher".
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identity, it continued to count among its leaders Protestants like
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had by then converted to Catholicism, and a considerable number of
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Reform of restrictions on property ownership and voting in 1778–93.
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comment in 1792: "A word has been lately struck in the mint of the
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or allied with the Crown. They eventually came to be known as the
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of Ireland, as the Gaelic nobility had either died, fled with the
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The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork 1920–1921
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was assigned under mortgage to tenant farmers and farm workers.
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Roman Catholic lay priests had to register to preach under the
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Presbyterian marriages were not legally recognised by the state
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Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture
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An introduction to the architectural heritage of County Laois
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The festering sense of native grievance was magnified by the
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in 1771–93 but did not abolish them entirely. Grattan sought
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population, long-standing fully Gaelicised and intermarried
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who said it was "actuated by the most monopolising spirit".
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Catholicism in Ulster, 1603–1983: An Interpretative History
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between 1919 and 1923. The campaign was stepped up by the
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system, where membership was based on being a large
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influence. Local government was democratized by the
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Bar to Catholics and Protestant Dissenters entering
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Ban on intermarriage with Protestants; repealed 1778
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Public Space-Private Life: A Decade at Slane Castle
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Richard Woodward
Bishop of Cloyne
Ireland
Anglican
ruling class
Church of Ireland
Church of England
British rule in Ireland
Irish Catholic aristocracy
the Crown
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Great Britain
Tudor conquest of Ireland
plantations of Ireland
Ulster
focus in particular
Battle of Kinsale
aristocracy
gentry
Flight of the Earls
Anglo-Irish people
nationalists
unionists
Boyle Roche
Irish House of Commons
Dublin Corporation
George III
Catholic emancipation
Marquess of Abercorn

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