Catholic emancipation movement

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political movement social movement

The Catholic emancipation movement was a political and social campaign, especially prominent in Britain and Ireland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, that sought to remove legal restrictions and civil disabilities imposed on Roman Catholics.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Catholic Emancipation movement	1
Catholic emancipation movement canonical	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	political movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ
appliesTo	Roman Catholics in Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Catholics in Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCause	Penal Laws against Catholics NERFINISHED ⓘ exclusion of Catholics from Parliament ⓘ exclusion of Catholics from many public offices ⓘ religious discrimination in Britain and Ireland ⓘ
hasGeographicScope	Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasKeyEvent	Act of Union 1800 NERFINISHED ⓘ Catholic Relief Act 1778 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gordon Riots 1780 NERFINISHED ⓘ O'Connell's election for County Clare 1828 NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793 NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Daniel O'Connell NERFINISHED ⓘ George IV NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Grattan NERFINISHED ⓘ William Pitt the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasKeyOrganization	Catholic Association NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMainGoal	ending civil disabilities imposed on Catholics ⓘ granting civil rights to Roman Catholics ⓘ removal of legal restrictions on Roman Catholics ⓘ
hasMethod	electoral pressure ⓘ mass political mobilization ⓘ petitioning Parliament ⓘ
hasOppositionFrom	Orange Order NERFINISHED ⓘ Protestant establishment in Britain ⓘ
hasOutcome	admission of Catholics to the Westminster Parliament ⓘ eligibility of Catholics for most public offices ⓘ greater religious equality in the United Kingdom ⓘ repeal of many Penal Laws ⓘ
hasPeakPeriod	early 19th century ⓘ late 18th century ⓘ
hasReligiousContext	Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Catholic civil rights in other parts of the British Empire ⓘ later movements for religious equality in Britain ⓘ
influencedBy	Enlightenment ideas of civil rights ⓘ
legalContext	British constitutional law ⓘ Irish constitutional law ⓘ
opposes	Penal Laws in Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ Test Acts NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	British constitutional reform ⓘ Irish nationalism ⓘ history of Ireland ⓘ history of the United Kingdom ⓘ
timePeriod	c. 1770s–1830s ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

John McHale (bishop) → movement → Catholic emancipation movement ⓘ

Daniel O’Connell → movement → Catholic emancipation movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Catholic Emancipation movement