Mountjoy, Lord (Mr. Gardiner)—
his Catholic Relief Bills, 88, 89
Mulgrave, Lord, viceroy, 350
Municipal reform, 363-365
Munster escheatorship given to Union-
ists only, 185

Mutiny Bills. See Coercion

N.

Napier, Mr., Irish attorney-general,
444

Napier Land Bills, 444, 445, 449, 450
Nation newspaper founded, 377, 417
National Association organised, 360
National debt. See Finance
National finance. See Finance
National poetry, 30
National sentiment engendered, 73, 74,

91

Nationalist cause, 465. See also
Catholics, etc.

Native Irish. See also Catholics
excluded from the army, 3, 13

and from Parliament, II
their condition in 1700, 15
excluded from the galleries of the
House of Commons, 41
excluded from high offices, 47, 48
concessions to, 83

colonists and natives united, 83, 84
Navigation Act repealed, 415
Navy, Irish seamen for the common

defence of the empire, 94
Nevill, A. J., surveyor-general, misap-
propriated public money, 76, 77
Newfoundland founded by Irish Catho-
lics, 107

Newport, Sir J., 255, 260, 267, 275
Nonconformists. See also Presbyterians,
Protestants

their position in 1695, 21, 22
their attitude towards the penal code,
39

the Test Act imposed on them, 33,
39, 40

persecutions, 41
emigration, 54

North, Lord, moved free trade resolu-
tions, 85

Oak Boys, 61, 62, 67

Oaths-

the Oath of Supremacy abrogated in
Ireland, II

Oaths-continued

519

the Oaths of Allegiance and Abjura-
tion substituted, 22

the Catholics and, 28

a Modification Bill rejected by the
Lords, 289

the oath enacted by the Catholic
Relief Bill, 311

the Unlawful Oaths Act continued in
1851, 431, 432

O'Brien, Mr. Smith, repealer, 417
arrested on a charge of conspiracy,
418

on the discontent in 1843, 387, 388
O'Connell, Daniel, 191, 221, 222, 233-
400

his rise and progress, 233, 234
secretary of the Catholic Committee,

241

Duvergier's description of, 295, 296
and the Waterford election (1826),
301

elected for Clare, 306-308

not allowed to take the new oath, 311
re-elected, 315

moved tithe amendment to the Co-
ercion Act of 1833, 322

and Grattan, dissensions, 242, 269
and the Catholic Board, 279

and the Catholic Association, 279-
284

prosecuted for seditious language,
284

excluded from official life, 349, 350
founded the Repeal Association, 376
defeated in Dublin, 377

and the Young Ireland Party, 378-
393

elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, 383
and the Clontarf meeting, 389
arrested on a charge of conspiracy,
389-391

died at Genoa in 1847, 400

on the Catholics and the Union, 191
on the Orangemen, 221, 222
on the Catholic struggle for emanci-
pation, 235

on the veto, 242, 243

on Ireland after the Union, 244
on Catholic Emancipation, 268
on Irish independence, 272, 273
O'Connor, Charles, 79

October 23rd anniversary thanksgiving
discontinued, 3

O'Flaherty, Mr., on the Tenant-Right
League, 446, 447

O'Mahony and the Fenians, his mission
to America, 463-466

Orangemen, 164, 165

and the Union, 175, 176, 193, 194
Orange associations, 220-222, 261,
262, 267

the November celebration prohibited
and a riot at Dublin Theatre, 277,
278

Brunswick clubs, 307

the Orange lodges broken up, 361,
362

Belfast riots of 1857, 456, 457

the Brady letter and commissioners
of the peace, 456, 457

and disestablishment, 479, 480
Orde, Mr., secretary, 102, 108
Ormond, Duke of, governor, 31, 37
Outlawries Bills, 23, 24, 25

P

Paine's "Rights of Man," 132
Palmerston, Lord, 247

prime minister (1859), 457
died, 473

on the discontent in 1843, 386, 387
on tenant-right, 453

Papist. See Catholics, Native Irish,
Coercion, etc.

Parliamentary—

1689. James's Parliament, 2
1692.

William's first Parliament,
II, 12

exclusion of the native Irish and
attitude of the colonists, II
prorogued, 12

1695-1771. Penal legislation direc-

ted chiefly against the Catholics.
See Coercion, Land Question
1719. A declaratory Act affirming
the authority of the English
Parliament to make laws for
Ireland, 73

the right to dispose of surplus
revenue, 75-77
1753. The king's consent. 76

disputes about money Bills, 76, 77
1756. The purchase of members, 77
pension resolutions, 78

1765. A Septennial Bill, 80

a Bill to prevent the sale of offices
of administration and justice
lost, 80

1767. An Octennial Bill passed, 81
1769. A money Bill, originating in

the English Privy Council, re-
jected by the Irish House of
Commons, 81, 82

Parliamentary-continued
1771-75. Concessions to Catholics, 82
1771-82. The English Parliament
and Irish legislative indepen-
dence, 69, 70

the Irish House of Commons and
money Bills, 70-72

1779. Henry Grattan, the champion
of the natives and the colonists,
83, et seq.

Hussey Burgh's free trade amend-
ment carried, 84, 85

resolutions for the relief of Irish
commerce passed by the English
Parliament, 85

1782. Concessions to Catholics; two
of Mr. Gardiner's Bills passed,
88, 89

Grattan's motion for a declaration
of rights carried, 90

repeal of the Declaratory Act
moved by Mr. Eden, 89; and
by Mr. Fox, 90

Grattan's address in reply, 90
Mr. Flood's amendment defeated,

91

A Bill to settle the question passed
and Irish legislative indepen-
dence won, 91

Grattan's Parliament; the Military
Act limited in duration, 93
the independence of judges se-
cured, 95

the Bank of Ireland created, 96
Habeas Corpus Act passed, 96
Parliamentary reforms, 96

1783. Social and commercial legis-
lation, 97

electoral reforms, 98, 99

other Reform Bills rejected, 99
1784. Fifty-six Acts passed in the
first session of Grattan's Par-
liament, 101

1785. The English revised commer-
cial proposals denounced, 111
1789. The regency question, 119
the viceroy censured, 119, 120
a short money Bill, 120

the attorney-general and the Act
of Settlement, 120

1790. Grattan and the ministerial
corruption, 121, 122

a dissolution and a new Parliament,
124

1791. Reforms resisted by the Gov-
ernment, 124

1792. Langrishe's Bill granting con-
cessions to Catholics passed, 126

Parliamentary-continued.

1793. Catholic questions specially
considered and the Emancipa-
tion Act passed, 128, 129
the Responsibility, Pension, and
Place Bills passed, 130

A Gunpowder Bill and the Con-
vention Act passed, 130, 131
1795. The pension list reduced, the

cost of revenue collection di-
minished, measures to restrain
the use of spirituous liquors
passed, the Police Act remo-
delled, and the hearth tax
abolished, 135

complete emancipation of the
Catholics urged, 134, 136-141;
but postponed, 137-139

a short money Bill passed, 138, 139
votes of thanks moved in the Irish

Parliament to Lord Fitzwilliam
on his recall by the English
Cabinet, 139

Grattan's Catholic Relief Bill
moved, denounced and rejected,
143, 144

1796. Grattan's commercial equality
amendment declared "sedi-
tious," 148; and rejected, 149
a Bill to indemnify magistrates
and others passed, 148, 149
a Bill to prevent insurrections
passed, 148, 149

Curran's motion for an inquiry into

the condition of the poor re-
jected, 149

Grattan's emancipation amend-
ment rejected and Habeas Cor-
pus suspended, 150
1797. Grattan's motion for the recall
of General Lake's proclamation
in Ulster lost, 150, 151
George Ponsonby's motion for the
repeal of the Insurrection Act
lost, 151

report on the treasonable papers
of the United Irishmen, 151
W. B. Ponsonby's Parliamentary
reform resolutions defeated, 152,
153; and followed by protest
and secession, 153, 154
1798. The last Irish Parliament met,
156, 157

1799. The Union project introduced

in the Irish Parliament, 176-178
protests, and a division giving a
majority of five to the National
party, 176-178

521

Parliamentary continued
1799-continued. The Union pro-
ject in the English House of
Commons, 179

Castlereagh's calculations, 180-182
Mr. Foster's address on freedom
and prosperity, 183, 184
the Regency Bill postponed, 185
the House closed, 185, 186
1800. The case against the Union,
197, 198

return of Grattan, 197, 200
the Act of Union passed, 200
1801. On January 22 Parliament met
at Westminster and one hundred
Irish representatives took their
seats, 205

the Insurrection Act renewed and
Habeas Corpus suspended, 205,
225, 226

a Bill of indemnity for all acts of
martial law since 1793 passed,
205, 226

the Irish Budget, 224

1803. A Bill for the trial of rebels
by court-martial passed and the
two Coercion Bills re-enacted,
227, 228

Colonel Hutchinson's motion for
inquiry negatived, 228

1804. Inquiry pressed, but refused,
228, 229

1805. The first Catholic petition for
emancipation refused by Pitt,
230

the petition presented by Grenville
and Fox, 230, 231
Grattan's speech, 231, 232
Fox's motion defeated, 232
1806. A policy of reconciliation, 232,
233

1807. O'Connell and the new peti-
tion, 233-235

Lord Howick's Bill for opening
commissions in the army and
navy to Catholics, 235

a new Parliament, 236

another Insurrection Act and a
Bill authorising magistrates to
search houses for unregistered
weapons passed, 236, 237
Sheridan's motion for inquiry re-
jected, 237

1808. The Catholic petition renewed
and entrusted to Lord Fingall,
237, 238

the petition presented by Grattan,
239

Parliamentary--continued
1808-continued. The veto contro-
versy, 239-2431

1809. Mr. H. Parnell's Tithe Com-
mutation Bill, 245

1810. Another petition presented by
Grattan and a motion for a com-
mittee defeated, 245

1811. The petition again presented

by Grattan and a committee
refused, 245

1812. Lord Morpeth's motion for
inquiry lost, 246

Grattan's annual petition lost, 246
Canning's motion for the considera-

tion of Irish affairs carried, 247
1813. A new Parliament, 246, 247
Canning's motion renewed by
Grattan and carried, 247
1814. The Superintending Magis-
trates Bill passed, 258, 259
the insurrection of 1807 revived,
259

1815. Sir H. Parnell's motion for

inquiry rejected, 248

1816-19. The motion repeated by

Grattan, but without success, 248
1816. A Bill for the consolidation of
the British and Irish Exchequers
passed, 254, 255

Sir J. Newport's motion for inquiry
and Peel's amendment carried,
260, 261

an Ejectment Act passed, 263-265
1817. Another Consolidation Act,
255, 256

the Seditious Meeting Act inap-
plicable to Ireland, but the In-
surrection Act extended, 267
1821. Plunket's resolutions dealing

with the Catholic questions
carried, 271, 272

Plunket's second Bill, denounced
by O'Connell, passed by the
Lower House, but thrown out
by the Lords, 272

1822. Habeas Corpus suspended and
the Insurrection Act renewed,
274

debate on the state of Ireland, 275
Goulburn's Public Works Bill,
276

1823. Tithe reform, 276

the Insurrection Act renewed, 278
1824. A commission on Irish educa-

tion and committees to consider
the state of Ireland appointed,
288

Parliamentary-continued.

1825. The Catholic Association Sup-
pression Bill passed, 285-287
the Bill for the modification of the
oaths disqualifying Catholics
from membership of Parliament
or corporations thrown out by
the Upper House, 289
1826. Parliament dissolved, 297
1827. Ireland omitted in the king's
speech, 302

elections discussed, 302, 303
Sir F. Burdett's motion for inquiry
lost, 302, 303

1828. Burdett's motion renewed and
carried, but Lord Lansdowne's
motion rejected, 304
1829. Ireland in the king's speech,
309

the Catholic Association Suppres-
sion Bill passed, 309, 310, 312,
313

a committee on the disabilities of
Catholics, 309, 310

the Catholic Emancipation Bill
passed, 311

forty-shilling freeholders disfran-
chised, 312

1830. The Education Act and the
Irish Reform Act, 317, 318
1832. The composition of tithe made
compulsory, 318

1833. A Coercion Bill passed, 319-
323

the Church Temporalities Bill

passed without the appropriation
clause, 323-325

1834. A Bill for substituting a land
tax for tithe rejected, 319
an inquiry into the conduct of Mr.
Baron Smith, judge, moved,
327, 328

a repeal debate, 328-330

a Bill to commute tithes into a
land tax, 330, 331

Ward's appropriation motion, 332-
333

resignations and reconstruction of
the ministry, 332, 333

a Church commission appointed,
333

the renewal of the Coercion Act,
333-336

the suppression of meetings clauses

and overthrow of the ministry,
333-337

a new Coercion Act with no meet-
ing clauses passed, 339, 340

Parliamentary-continued.
1834-continued.

The Tithe Bill
again taken up, 341, 347
the Peel interregnum, 341, 347, 348
1835. The appropriation question
renewed by Lord John Russell,
348, 349

Lord Melbourne's government, 349
appropriation clauses rejected by
the House of Lords, 333-356
suits against defaulting incumbents
suspended, 356

1836. The Tithe Bill again passed
by the Commons and rejected by
the Lords, 359

reform of the police and magistracy,

370
1837, 1838. The tithe question
settled, 362, 363

1837-40. Municipal reform settled,
363-365

1838. The Poor Relief Act passed,
365-368

1843. The Arms Bill debates, 385-
387

inquiry refused, 387, 388
1844. The elementary education

grant increased, and a Bill for
enabling Catholics to hold pro-
perty and accept bequests for
religious purposes passed, 392
1845. The grant to Maynooth College
increased and three undenomi-
national colleges founded, 392,
393

1846. Repeal of the Corn Laws, 398,
399

extension of the Arms Act re-

Parliamentary continued.

523

1850. The Franchise Act, 431
the Crime and Outrage Act re-
newed, 431

a Bill to abolish the viceroyalty
abandoned after the second

reading, 432, 433

1851. The Unlawful Oaths Act con-
tinued, 431

the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 432
1852, 1853. The four Napier Land
Bills and fall of the Derby
ministry, 434-446, 449

1853. The Crime and Outrage Bill
passed, 449

the income tax extended to Ireland,
450

1854. Three Napier Land Bills
passed, 450

the Ministers' Money Bill of 1853
abolished, 452

Mr. Shee's Bill for the suspension

of 395 benefices rejected, 452
1860. The Landed Property Im-
provement Act and the Landlord
and Tenant Law Amendment
Act passed, 457-459

1862. The " quarter of an acre
clause modified, 462
1866. Habeas Corpus suspended,
467, 469

Mr. Dillwyn's Irish Church Estab-
lishment motion, 481

1868. Mr. Gladstone's disestablish-
ment motion carried and a sus-
pensory Bill rejected by the
Lords, 482

1869. Mr. Gladstone's Disestablish-
ment Bill carried, 483, 484
1870. Mr. Gladstone's Land Act,
498-500

1881. Another Land Act, 501
1884. The Reform Act passed, 502
1886. Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule
Bill and defeat of the Govern-
ment, 502

Parnell, Mr. C. S., 501, 502
Parnell, Mr. Henry, and tithe commu-
tation, 245

Parnell, Sir H., on the history of
coercion from 1796 to 1823, 278
Parsons, Sir Lawrence-

on the postponement of the Catholic
Relief Bill, 137, 138

on the Union project, 177, 197

on the Catholic Relief Bill of 1795,

144
"Patriots," 57