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Ponsonby, George, attorney-general,

134

on coercion, 151

on Parliamentary reform, 152
on the Union project, 177

Ponsonby, W. B., moved Parliamentary
reform resolutions, 152, 153

Poor law. See Pauperism

Population statistics, 206, 394, 424,
425, 474, 475

Porter, Sir Charles, lord justice, im-
peached, 17

Portland, Duke of, viceroy, 89
Portland, Duke of, secretary, 133-141
pressed the postponement of the

Catholic Relief Bill, 137, 140;
and desired the Union of Ire-
land with Great Britain, 140, 141,
143

perfidy of, 140, 141

his orders to Lord Camden, 143
Postal reforms, 98

Potato disease, 397, 398. See also
Famine

Potato introduced, 394

Powerscourt, Lord, an enemy of the
Union, 176

Præmunire, 19, 27, 29, 39
"Precursor Society," 365

Presbyterians. See also Nonconform-
ists

William III.'s grant (Regium Do-
num), 22, 220, 221
withdrawn, 41, 483

a Toleration Bill, 46

their position at the Union, 219
Pretender. See Jacobites

Privy Council, Irish, 70

Proctors. See Tithes

Protestants. See also Church, Colonists,

Nonconformists,

Ulster Associations

tolerance, 143

Presbyterians,

Ulster charged with an insurrection-
ary spirit, 150, 151
Public meetings

155

prohibited,

Public works, 266
Goulburn's Bill, 276

relief works in 1847, 403, 404

Q

154

Quarantotti, Monsignor, and the veto,

241, 242

Queen Victoria visited Ireland in 1849,

419

R

INDEX

Railways, Drummond's report, 370
371
Rebellion, insurrection, agrarian crime,

etc. See also Coercion, Fenianism,
Whiteboys, Orangemen
"Rebellion, a war in which the
Irish are belligerents, 25
rioting under the Militia Bill and
sectarian disturbances in Armagh
(1793-94), 131

sectarianism stimulated and rebellion
provoked (1795-98), 144-170
"Defenderism," 147

"Luttrellades," General Carhamp-
ton's outrages, 147, 148, 154, 158
the charge against Ulster and General
Lake's tyranny, 150, 151

Sir R. Abercrombie in the "disturbed
districts" (1798), 159, 160

General Lake's cruelties, 161, 167
the "United Irish" insurrection
(1798), 165-170

Repeal. See Union
Repressive measures.

525

See Coercion

Responsibility Bill passed, 130
Resumption Acts, 29, 69

Revenue, hereditary and temporary, 71.
See also Finance

Ribbonmen, 222, 283, 455, 456
Richey, Prof., on tenants' improve-

ments, 459

Richmond, Duke of, viceroy, 236
Rochester, Earl of, retired, 31
Rockingham administration, 89
Rossa, O'Donovan, Fenian, 463-467
Rosse, Lord, on landlords and tenants,
115

Royal Irish Academy founded, 115
Russell (Emmett's insurrection), 227
Russell, Earl, on Irish grievances,
473

Russell, Lord John, prime minister,
399-442

on Peel's interregnum, 348, 349
on coercion, 391

on the abolition of the viceroyalty,
433, 434

Emmett's insurrection (1803), 226, Rutland, Duke of, viceroy, 102-113

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(1848), 416

(1860-65), 461-462
Carders, 258, 259

Ribbonism, 222, 283, 455, 456
social disorder (1832-33), 319, 320
"outrages " in Tipperary and the
magistrates' protest (1841), 371-374
the rebellion of 1848, 417-419
Orangeism. See Orangeism

Fenianism. See Fenianism
Redesdale, Lord, 260

Reform. See also Electoral, Parlia-
mentary

Reform Bill (English) of 1832, 317
Regency question (1788), 117-122
Regium Donum. See Presbyterianism
Reickavallos, 218

Relief committees. See Famine
Relief works. See Public Works

Religious questions. See Church,

Catholics, Coercion, Nonconform-
ists, Presbyterians, Protestants

S

Sadleir, Mr. John, and the Tenant-
Right League, 446, 447

St. Patrick order of knights created,

115

St. Ruth, Lieut.-General, commander-
in-chief of the Irish army, killed at
Aughrim, 5, 6

Salt from Ireland smuggled into Great
Britain, 103

Saul, Mr., prosecuted for harbouring a
Catholic relative, 59, 60
Saurin on the Union project, 172, 173
Schomberg, 4

Secret service money from England to
bribe and corrupt, 174, 175, 195,
196

Secret societies. See Ulster Associa-
tions, Irish Union, Fenianism, etc.
Sectarianism, policy of. See Catholics,
Coercion, etc.

Settlement, Act of, to be maintained,
1, 2

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Sheffield, Lord, on Irish manufactures, | Talbot, Richard. See Tyrconnel

105, 106

Sheil on the Church establishment, 330
Sheridan and coercion, 225, 237
Sherlock v. Annesley, 73, 89
Sidney, Lord, viceroy, 10-17
Smith, Mr. Baron, judge, inquiry into
his conduct moved, 327, 328
Smith, Mr. Goldwin, on Fenianism, 472
Smuggling from Ireland into Great
Britain, 103

Soap and candles, trade in, 103, 104
Social condition of Ireland-

at the Union, 205-222
1830-34, 341-346

1835-41, 368-374
1848, 413

1870, 504-508

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Temperance. Father Matthew's mis-
sion, 368, 369

Temple, Lord, on the need for inquiry
into the state of Ireland (1804),
228-229, 230

Tenant right, See Land
Test Acts.
Threshers, 233
Tithes, 64-66

See Coercion

proctors, tithe farmers and canters,
64, 65, 214-216, 237

reform needed, but a sanguinary law
passed, 113

more tithes granted, 113

Grattan's resolutions for the modifi-
cation of the tithe system met by
the premature prorogation of Par-
liament, 114

Mr. H. Parnell's Bill (1809), 245
Tithe Reform Bill passed (1822),
276

history of, 318, 319

composition of the tithe made com-
pulsory, 318

the collection of arrears, 318

an Amending Act passed, 318
O'Connell's amendment to the Coer-
cion Act of 1833, 322

a Tithe Commutation Bill and the
question of appropriation, 331-
333, 340

a Church commission, 333

origin of the tithe war (1830), 341,
342

the appropriation question renewed,
348, 349, 355-357, 359

the Court of Exchequer and the col-
lection of tithes, 358, 359

the tithe question settled (1838),
362,363

Toleration Act defeated, 22, 23
Tone, Wolfe, 164

and the United Irishmen, 162,
163

Townsend, Rev. Mr., on letting land
by auction, 211
Townshend, Lord, viceroy, 81
Treaty, commercial, with England.
See Commercial

Treaty of Limerick. See Limerick
Trench, Mr. Stuart-

on the famine of 1846-47, 402
on English and Irish crime, 455
Troy, Dr., Pius VII.'s agent, 229
Tyrconnel, Duke of (Richard Talbot)-
commander-in-chief of the army, I
viceroy, 2

U

INDEX

Ulster associations, 60. See also Irish
Union

Oak Boys and Steel Boys, 61, 62,
67

Ulster declared insurrectionary, 150,
151

Ulster tenant right, 488

Union of Ireland with England-

proposed, 36, 37, 70, 71, 140, 144,
145

resisted by the Catholics, 140, 141
petition against, 153

the Pitt-Portland Cabinet's proposal,

171

protests, 173

corruption and intimidation, 174,
175

the measure introduced, and a
majority of five for the national
party, 176-178

the measure introduced by Pitt

into the British House of
Commons, 179

Sheridan's proposal voted down,
179

the resolutions passed, 179
Castlereagh's calculations, 180,
181

corruption and intimidation, 174,

175, 180-182, 185-187, 194-
196, 196, 198, 1991

Lord Cornwallis's tour in the south
and through Ulster, 188
Catholic protests, 190-193
Catholics and Orangemen com-
bine, 193, 194

the project in the Irish Parlia-
ment, and return of Grattan,
197-200

the Bill passed, 200
Union Parliament.

mentary (1801)

See Parlia-

resolutions in favour of repeal,

432

clauses 6 and 7 of the Act of Union,
249

agitation for repeal, 315, 326

the repeal debate of 1834, 328,
329

the Repeal Association founded by
O'Connell, 376-380

the Young Ireland party, 378, 379
the Presbyterians and Federalism,
380, 381

527

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