Catholics vs Protestants: the dawn of Republicanism

Overview:

Ireland in the 16th century
Poynings’ Law
Religious issues
Ireland in the 17th century
Flight

Ireland in the XVI-th century

Henry VII (1485 – 1509)
1494 Sir Edward

Ireland in the XVI-th century

Henry VIII (1509 – 1547)
Head of the

Ireland in the XVI-th century

Edward VI (1547 – 1553)
Policy hardened
Military campaigns

Ireland in the XVI-th century

Mary I (1553 – 1558)
1st successful plantation
Laois

Ireland in the XVI-th century

1593 – 1603 rebellion in Ulster
Hugh O’Neill

Ireland in the XVII-th century

1607 Hugh O’Neill and Rory O’Donnell ->

Ireland in the XVII-th century

1642 – 1651: the Civil War in

The man who could take Drogheda could take hell. - Sir

Ireland in the XVII-th century

1653 – 1654 – another plantation
Irish Catholics

Ireland in the XVII-th century

England: James II: Catholic, unpopular.
1688: deposed, fled

Penal Laws for Catholics (XVII – XVIII cent.)

Banned from the Parliament
No

Ireland in the XVIII-th century

From 1778 -> restrictions repealed
Catholics: allowed to

St. Patrick’s College Maynooth

Ireland in the XVIII-th century

Linen industry
1711: Linen Board
Concentrated in the north
1782:

Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763 –1798)

The Enlightenment
1791: the Society of United Irishmen
Independent

Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen

Theobald Wolfe Tone:
his education
Personality
job, personal life
Skills
the

H/W:

The Curse of Cromwell by W.B. Yeats: read the poem and

Extra Resources (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1yB4fJp4qU Wolfe Tone and the Protestants of 1798 (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZkJc1RdK6Q

Extra Resources:

http://www.countysongs.ie/song/?songtheme=Flight%20of%20Earls – Flight of the Earls
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/oliver-cromwells-war-crimes-the-massacre-of-drogheda-this-day-in-1649 - Cromwell
http://www.historytoday.com/tom-reilly/cromwell-irish-question - Cromwell
http://www.iisresource.org/documents/0a3_trafford_ks3_y8.pdf