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Ireland Under the Union 1800–1900

The British government's response 1800–1900

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Why did Pitt fail to deliver Catholic Emancipation with the Union?

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What were the consequences of Pitt's failure to deliver Catholic Emancipation with the Union?

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  1. 1

    Why did Pitt fail to deliver Catholic Emancipation with the Union?

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    George III refused to accept Emancipation as a breach of his coronation oath, and Pitt resigned in 1801 rather than press it, so the Union began with an expectation raised and broken.

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    What were the consequences of that failure?

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    Catholics who had supported the Union in the hope of Emancipation felt betrayed, the measure that might have reconciled them was delayed for twenty-eight years, and the Union never acquired the Catholic goodwill Pitt had counted on.

  3. 3

    How did governments respond to O'Connell's Emancipation campaign?

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    Ministers resisted for years, suppressed the Catholic Association by statute in 1825, and then conceded in 1829 under the threat of disorder while raising the franchise to punish the electorate that had forced them.

  4. 4

    How did the Whigs govern Ireland in the 1830s?

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    The Whigs governed with O'Connell's support and through reforming officials such as Thomas Drummond, appointing Catholics to office, reorganising the constabulary, settling the tithe question and reforming the corporations.

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    What were the limits of Whig reform in the 1830s?

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    Appropriation of Church revenue was abandoned, the land question was not touched, and the Poor Law of 1838 imported a workhouse system unsuited to Irish conditions.

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    How did Peel handle the Repeal campaign?

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    Peel refused Repeal absolutely, proclaimed the Clontarf meeting and prosecuted O'Connell, while at the same time trying to detach moderate Catholics through the Devon Commission, the Charitable Bequests Act, the Maynooth grant and the Queen's Colleges.

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