1798 rebellion all keywords

Controversial issues

Events people or ideas over which there is serious disagreement

Discrimination

Unjust treatment of different people usually based on race religion or sex

Fenians

Irish political group formed in mid - 19th century that believed in the use of physical force to achieve Irish independence also known as IRB

Impact

The effect or influence of a movement event or person

Nationalism

Political belief that the world is divided into nations and that each nation should have its own government

Parliamentary tradition

Belief in the use of peaceful means to achieve political change and to achieve Irish independence opposed to physical force

Passive resistance

Non violent or peaceful opposition to government opposed to physical force

Penal laws

A Laws that discriminated against catholics and Presbyterians

Physical force tradition

Belief in the use of revolution, armed uprising to achieve Irish independence opposed to parliamentary tradition

Protestant ascendancy

The control exercised by church over catholics and Presbyterians

Republic

A country or government ruled by a lay person not a monarch

Republicanism

Political belief in Ireland that wanted complete independence from Britain and to establish a republic by physical force

Tithe

One tenth of the annual crops given to support the clergy in the Catholic Church or the church of Ireland

Unionism

Political belief that wanted to maintain the union with Britain, (that parliament in Westminster would continue to make laws for Ireland)