Key dates Flashcards
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What year was the Act of Union passed?
1801
What year was Catholic Emancipation?
1829
What was Catholic Emancipation?
Gave Catholics the right to stand in elections, however the fact that very few owned their own land meant they could not vote
What year was the Fenian Brotherhood set up
1858
Who set up the Fenian Brotherhood
James Stephens
What was the significance of 1867?
Fenian uprisings in Chester and Kerry Fenian Risings across Ireland Clan na Gael founded in New York Manchester Martyrs executed Clerkenwell explosion
Pre 1867 the Fenian’s were seen as a nuisance - after this date the cartoons show them as more as a threat
What year was the Reform Act passed, increasing the number of people that could vote?
1867
What dates were Gladstone’s First Term in Power?
1868 - 1874
What year did Gladstone declare he was to ‘Pacify Ireland’ (First year of office)?
1968
How did Gladstone get Prime Minister the first time around?
The 1867 Reform Act meant he was the product of the People’s votes
What were Gladstone’s 3 initial reforms during his first office
1869 - Disestablishment of the Church Act
1870 - First Land Act
1873 - University Bill
What dates were the three Land Acts?
1870
1881
1887
What year was the Home Rule Association set up?
1870
Who set up the Home Rule Association?
Isaac Butt
What was the Disestablishment of the Church Act?
All legal connection between the Church and the State was ended. Church property was confiscated
Why was the impact of the Home Rule Association so small at first?
The people had faith in Gladstone after his Churches Act and attempt at a Land Act
What did the First Land Act grant?
Ulster Custom - tenants could not be evicted if they could pay their rents + compensation for improvements
Eviction - eviction = compensation
Land purchase - state paid 2/3
Why was Gladstone’s initial reforms not massively successful?
Very complex situation
Churches act was successful - improved situation and therefore moral - displayed understanding of situation
This emphasises the ineffectiveness of the following Bills because he had such a successful opening
Land Act of 1870 possessed a compromise - he tried to please too many people - didn’t end up pleasing anyone
Universities Bill of 1873 - ineffective and unpopular
What year was the Land League established?
1879
Who was in Parliament between 1874 - 1880?
Disraeli - Conservative Government
What was the initial Aim of the Land League?
3Fs
Free Sale
Fair Rent
Fixity of Tenure
What year was the Land War issue?
1879 - 1880
What year was Parnell made president of the Land League?
1879 - but avoided violence by travelling to America for duration of Land War
What year did the Home Rule Party become the IPP under Parnell’s leadership?
1880