Catholic emancipation movement

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The Catholic emancipation movement was a political and social campaign, especially prominent in Britain and Ireland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, that sought to remove legal restrictions and civil disabilities imposed on Roman Catholics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political movement
social movement
appliesTo Roman Catholics in Britain
Roman Catholics in Ireland
linked to: Irish Catholics
hasCause Penal Laws against Catholics
exclusion of Catholics from Parliament
exclusion of Catholics from many public offices
religious discrimination in Britain and Ireland
hasGeographicScope Great Britain
Ireland
United Kingdom
hasKeyEvent Act of Union 1800
linked to: Acts of Union 1800

Catholic Relief Act 1778
Gordon Riots 1780
linked to: Gordon Riots

O'Connell's election for County Clare 1828
Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791
Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793
Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829
hasKeyFigure Daniel O'Connell
linked to: Daniel O’Connell

George IV
Henry Grattan
William Pitt the Younger
hasKeyOrganization Catholic Association
hasMainGoal ending civil disabilities imposed on Catholics
granting civil rights to Roman Catholics
removal of legal restrictions on Roman Catholics
hasMethod electoral pressure
mass political mobilization
petitioning Parliament
hasOppositionFrom Orange Order
Protestant establishment in Britain
hasOutcome admission of Catholics to the Westminster Parliament
eligibility of Catholics for most public offices
greater religious equality in the United Kingdom
repeal of many Penal Laws
hasPeakPeriod early 19th century
late 18th century
hasReligiousContext Roman Catholic Church
linked to: Roman Catholicism
influenced Catholic civil rights in other parts of the British Empire
later movements for religious equality in Britain
influencedBy Enlightenment ideas of civil rights
legalContext British constitutional law
Irish constitutional law
opposes Penal Laws in Ireland
Test Acts
relatedTo British constitutional reform
Irish nationalism
history of Ireland
history of the United Kingdom
timePeriod c. 1770s–1830s

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John McHale (bishop) movement Catholic emancipation movement
Daniel O’Connell movement Catholic Emancipation movement
linked to: Catholic emancipation movement
Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk associatedWithEvent Catholic Emancipation in the United Kingdom
linked to: Catholic emancipation movement
Penal Laws in Ireland relatedConcept Catholic Emancipation
linked to: Catholic emancipation movement
An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland associatedMovement Catholic emancipation movement in Ireland
linked to: Catholic emancipation movement
British Whig Party keyReform Catholic Emancipation (supported by many Whigs)
linked to: Catholic emancipation movement
Universalis Ecclesiae relatedTo Catholic Emancipation in the United Kingdom
linked to: Catholic emancipation movement
O’Connell Tower associatedWith Catholic Emancipation movement
linked to: Catholic emancipation movement