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To: jbe who wrote (75864)3/21/2000 4:27:00 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
This might help....After looking around, nowhere have I seen any mention of conversion or intermarriage, by the way. Had it been significant, wouldn't it have been mentioned?

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The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland in the 18th century was the domination of Ireland by Protestant Episcopalians who made up only 10% of the population.

After the American Revolution there was agitation in Ireland for greater powers being made available to the Irish parliament. In this period, when the British government was threatened by war with France and it needed Irish Catholic support, there were attempts to conciliate Catholic opinion. Catholics were admitted to civil offices that had previously been banned.

At the time of the French Revolution a temporary alliance between an intellectual elite of Protestant Presbyterians and Catholics resulted in the United Irishmen societies, led by Wolfe Tone. This group became known for their radical political discontent and with some help from France were involved in notable rebellions against the British. The result was that William Pitt, Prime Minister, amalgamated the British and Irish parliaments joining the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland into a new political formula: The United Kingdom.

Socio-economic notes:
i) Although in the 16th century Gaelic civilisation was destroyed in the upper classes of Irish society it was preserved for the next two centuries among the ordinary people of the Northwest, west and Southwest, who continued to speak Gaelic and who maintained a way of life remote from the ruling classes.

ii) In a land of great estates, most small Irish towns were in a state of decay in part because of the British restrictions of trade.

iii) In 1795 The Orange Order was established in defence of the Protestant Ascendancy. It fought for the privileges of Protestants and tended to exclude Catholics from breaking into the privileged ring of Protestant gentry and farmers.

Apart from folklore, little is known of the lives of ordinary people.
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