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Ireland in the Age of Revolutions - Coggle Diagram
Ireland in the Age of Revolutions
Ireland in the 1700s
Ruled by Parliament in Dublin
Catholics couldn't vote or stand for election
Some wealthy catholic children were educated in France... ideals of French Revolution
Mostly Protestant Landowners
Revolutions
American War of Independence
French
equality
fraternity
liberty
Theobald Wolfe Tone
wanted voting rights for all catholics and protestants
1791, set up Society of United Irishmen
Protestant lawyer
Society of United Irishmen
wanted the right to stand for election for all Irishmen
1793...catholics got vote.. English were afraid that the catholics would help France invade.
Set up in Belfast
French Help
43 ships, 14, 000 soldiers. Bantry Bay.. 14 landed
Bad weather. Waited for others. Didn't arrive. French went home.
1796.. Wolfe Tone was getting help in France
1798 Rebellion
Act of Union.. 1801
Parliament in Westminister
wealthy landowners got compensation
no parliament in Ireland
Opposition: Daniel O'Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell
Aftermath
campaign of terror against United Irishmen
1794: illegal to be a member of United Irishmen
English worried about another invasion