What rights did Catholics have in 1793?

The Catholic Relief Act (1793) enabled Catholics to take degrees but not to have full standing. All such religious exclusions were dropped in 1873. Nevertheless, Trinity remained almost exclusively Protestant until the Roman Catholic Church’s ban on attending was lifted in 1970.

When did Northern Ireland become Catholic?

Catholic Church Christianity had arrived in Ireland by the early 5th century, and spread through the works of early missionaries such as Palladius, and Saint Patrick.

When were the Irish given the right to vote?

The Representation of the People Act 1918 allowed all men over 21 and most women over 30 to vote in parliamentary elections.

Were there Catholics in Northern Ireland?

While in the 2011 census 84.2\% of people in the Republic of Ireland identified themselves as Catholic in the 2011 census in Northern Ireland only 40.8\% identified themselves as Catholic.

When was the Catholic Relief Act?

The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1791 (31 George III. c. 32) relieving Roman Catholics of certain political, educational, and economic disabilities.

When did Northern Ireland become Protestant?

Today, the vast majority of Ulster Protestants live in Northern Ireland, which was created in 1921 to have an Ulster Protestant majority.

When did Ireland become democratic?

In 1949, only 26 counties explicitly became a republic under the terms of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948, definitively ending its tenuous membership of the British Commonwealth.

Who were the Irish suffragettes?

The Irish Women’s Suffrage Society was an organisation for women’s suffrage, founded by Isabella Tod as the North of Ireland Women’s Suffrage Society in 1872. Determined lobbying by the Society ensured the 1887 Act creating a new city-status municipal franchise for Belfast conferred the vote on persons rather than men.