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Page vii
... UNION . ( 1782-1800 . ) I. EFFECT OF CONCESSION - WORK OF AN INDEPENDENT PARLIAMENT 93 Ac- II . THE COMMERCIAL QUEstion - ProgrESS OF IRISH MANUFACTURES COMMERCIAL PROPOSALS - CEPTED MINISTERIAL DISLOYALTY TO THE IRISH CONSTITUTION III ...
... UNION . ( 1782-1800 . ) I. EFFECT OF CONCESSION - WORK OF AN INDEPENDENT PARLIAMENT 93 Ac- II . THE COMMERCIAL QUEstion - ProgrESS OF IRISH MANUFACTURES COMMERCIAL PROPOSALS - CEPTED MINISTERIAL DISLOYALTY TO THE IRISH CONSTITUTION III ...
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... UNION TO CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION ( 1801-1829 . ) I. SOCIAL CONDITION OF IRELAND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY • II . FROM THE UNION TO THE DEATH OF GRATTAN III . THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION . PAGE 205 223 271 PART IV By LORD FITZMAURICE ...
... UNION TO CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION ( 1801-1829 . ) I. SOCIAL CONDITION OF IRELAND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY • II . FROM THE UNION TO THE DEATH OF GRATTAN III . THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION . PAGE 205 223 271 PART IV By LORD FITZMAURICE ...
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... union by provoking a rebellion . But the steps taken were well calculated to provoke an outbreak ; and when the ... Union of 1800 - and no censure can be too severe for the methods they employed - there were strong grounds , over and ...
... union by provoking a rebellion . But the steps taken were well calculated to provoke an outbreak ; and when the ... Union of 1800 - and no censure can be too severe for the methods they employed - there were strong grounds , over and ...
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... Union with Great Britain appeared to take Ireland out of the position of a dependency ; to offer a prospect of welding the different sections of the people together by the emancipation of the Roman Catholics ; to put an end absolutely ...
... Union with Great Britain appeared to take Ireland out of the position of a dependency ; to offer a prospect of welding the different sections of the people together by the emancipation of the Roman Catholics ; to put an end absolutely ...
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... Union took effect , making them look more than ever to England , dividing them sharply as ever from the children of the dispossessed natives and persecuted Catholics . Before the Union the colonists had been Irish to the English , and ...
... Union took effect , making them look more than ever to England , dividing them sharply as ever from the children of the dispossessed natives and persecuted Catholics . Before the Union the colonists had been Irish to the English , and ...
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