Chronicles: Chapter 10 - 1798 Rebellion | Quizlet

Act of Union (1800)

A law that abolished the Irish Parliament. When it came into effect on 1 January, 1801, Irish MPs had to travel to the parliament in London.

Catholic Emancipation

Granting Catholics equal rights, especially the right to take seats in parliament.

Constitutional nationalism

In Ireland, achieving a republic using parliamentary means.

General Humbert

Led a French force of more than 1,000 soldiers. They landed at Killala Bay, County Mayo.

General Lazare Hoche

Led a French fleet with Wolfe Tone. Part of the fleet was wrecked in a storm off Bantry Bay, and the rest was forced to return to France.

Henry Grattan

A Protestant and a leading member of the Irish Parliament. He believed in reducing English interference in Irish affairs using parliamentary means.

Henry Joy McCracken and Henry Munro

Leaders of the United Irishmen in Ulster.

Loyalist

A person who was loyal to the government. Most Protestants were loyalists and so were many Catholics.

Parliamentary tradition

The belief that British interference in Ireland could be ended using peaceful, parliamentary means. Henry Grattan pioneered this approach.

Penal Laws

A series of laws that discriminated against Catholics, for example banning them from voting.

Physical force tradition

The belief that only violent rebellion could achieve Irish independence.

Protestant Ascendency

Members of the Anglican elite. They made up 15 percent of the population and owned 80 percent of the land. They were the only people allowed to take seats in the Irish Parliament.

Republic

A country where the people elect their leaders in free and fair elections. The head of state is an elected president rather than a king or queen.

Robert Emmet

Led a brief rebellion in Dublin in 1803.

Scullabogue

A location where more than 100 civilian prisoners (most of whom were Protestants) were killed by the rebels.

Sectarian violence

In Ireland, Catholics and Protestants using physical force to attack each other.

The Northern Star

Newspaper of the United Irishmen.

Theobald Wolfe Tone

A Protestant lawyer who was a founding member of the United Irishmen. One of the leaders of the 1798 Rebellion.

United Irishmen

A republican society with Protestant and Catholic members. It supported Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform. It organised the 1798 Rebellion.

Vinegar Hill

The main rebel camp in Wexford.

Yeomanry

Part-time soldiers loyal to the government.