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The King and the Catholics

England, Ireland, and the fight for religious freedom, 1780-1829

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Antonia Fraser
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August 7, 2021 | History
An edition of The King and the Catholics (2018)

The King and the Catholics

England, Ireland, and the fight for religious freedom, 1780-1829

First American edition.
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"In the summer of 1780, mob violence swept through London. Nearly one thousand people were killed, looting was widespread, and torch-bearing protestors marched on the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. These were the Gordon Riots: the worst civil disturbance in British history, triggered by an act of Parliament designed to loosen two centuries of systemic oppression of Catholics in the British Isles. While many Londoners saw their homes ransacked and chapels desecrated that summer, the riots marked a crucial turning point in the Catholics' campaign to return to public life. Over the next fifty years, factions battled one another to reform the laws of the land: wealthy English Catholics yearned to rejoin the political elite; the protestant aristocracy in Ireland feared an empowered Catholic populace; and the priesthood coveted old authority that royal decree had forbidden. Kings George III and George IV stubbornly refused to address the "Catholic Question" even when pressed by their prime ministers--governments fell over it--and events in America and Europe made many skeptical of disrupting the social order. But in 1829, through the dogged work of charismatic Irish lawyer Daniel O'Connell and with the support of the Duke of Wellington, the Roman Catholic Relief Act finally passed. It was a watershed moment, opening the door to future social reform and the radical transformation of the Victorian age. The King and the Catholics is a gripping example of narrative history at its best. It is also a distant mirror of our own times, reflecting the dire consequences of state-sanctioned intolerance and showing how collective action and the political process can triumph over wrongheaded legislation"--

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Table of Contents

That fallen worship
Nothing to fear in England
The royal conscience
Green shores of liberty
Cardinal tempter
Grattan the Great
Serving Ireland royally
Millstone
A protestant king
Noise of no popery
Mr. Canning
O'Connell's boldest step
Brunswickers
Boot-and-spur work
From Rpeel to repeal
The duel
Tale of two MPs
Bloodless revolution.

Edition Notes

Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
941.07/3
Library of Congress
DA505 .F73 2018

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Pagination
xiv, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
319

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Open Library
OL26974415M
ISBN 10
0385544529
ISBN 13
9780385544528
LCCN
2018015523
OCLC/WorldCat
1048014206

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