King and the Catholics
The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was hailed as a ''bloodless revolution''.
Had the Irish Catholics been a ''millstone'', as described by an English aristocrat, or were the...
The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was hailed as a ''bloodless revolution''.
Had the Irish Catholics been a ''millstone'', as described by an English aristocrat, or were the...
