The King and the Catholics : the fight for rights 1829

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The King and the Catholics : the fight for rights 1829

Title remainder

the fight for rights 1829

Statement of responsibility

Antonia Fraser

Creator

• Fraser, Antonia, 1932-

Author

• Fraser, Antonia, 1932-

Subject

• Catholic Church -- Great Britain -- History
• Catholic Church -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Catholic Church -- History
• Catholic Church -- Ireland -- History
• Catholic emancipation
• Catholic emancipation -- Great Britain
• Catholics -- Great Britain
• Catholics -- Great Britain -- History
• Catholics -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
• Catholics -- Ireland -- History
• Anti-Catholicism -- Great Britain -- History
• Church and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Church history
• George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
• George, King of Great Britain, III, 1738-1820
• Gordon Riots, 1780
• Great Britain -- History -- George IV, 1820-1830
• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1800-1837
• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century
• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century
• Catholics -- Ireland -- Social conditions
• Catholic Church -- Great Britain

Language

eng

Summary

The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was hailed as a 'bloodless revolution'. Had the Irish Catholics been a 'millstone', as described by an English aristocrat, or were they the prime movers? While the English Catholic aristocracy and the Irish peasants and merchants approached the Catholic Question in very different ways, they manifestly shared the same objective. Antonia Fraser brings colour and humour to the vivid drama with its huge cast of characters: George III, who opposed Emancipation on the basis of the Coronation Oath; his son, the indulgent Prince of Wales, who was enamoured with the Catholic Maria Fitzherbert before the voluptuous Lady Conyngham; Wellington and the 'born Tory' Peel vying for leadership; 'roaring' Lord Winchilsea; the heroic Daniel O'Connell. Expertly written and deftly argued, The King and Catholics is also a distant mirror of our times, reflecting the political issues arising from religious intolerance

Additional physical form

Also issued online.

Cataloging source

VHEI

Dewey number

941.07

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DA537

LC item number

.F73 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography