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[The Grail of Catholic EmancipationCopyright © 2002 by Desmond Keenan. Book available from Xlibris.com and Amazon.com]

PREFACE ........................................................................

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ........................

The End of the Peace of Augsburg .............................

The Writing of Irish History ........................................

The Political Outlook of the Period .............................

Peace, Retrenchment, Reform and Emancipation .....

The Catholic Church in England and Ireland .............

Exclusion from Parliament .........................................

Parties in Parliament ..................................................

The Catholic Ultras ....................................................

Prince George, Prince of Wales ................................

England and the Holy See ..........................................

The Civil Constitution of Ireland ..............................

The Principal Officials ...............................................

Irish Influence in England ........................................

Agrarian Crime ..........................................................

The Relaxation of the Penal Laws

from 1757 until 1793 ..................................................

CHAPTER TWO: THE INITIAL PHASE

1793-1804 ..................................................................

Aftermath of the Relief Act 1793

(January 1793 to June 1794) .....................................

The Coming of Earl Fitzwilliam

(June 1794 to March 1795) .......................................

Earl Camden

(March 1795 to June 1798) .......................................

Cornwallis and Castlereagh

(June 1798 to February 1801) ..................................

Addington and Harwicke

(February 1801 to May 1804) ...................................

CHAPTER THREE: THE SECOND PHASE

1804 TO 1808 ..........................................................

The First Petition

(Summer 1804 to January 1806) .............................

The Pro-Catholic Ministry

(February 1806 to March 1807) ..............................

Portland’s Ministry

(April to December 1807) .......................................

CHAPTER FOUR: THE THIRD PHASE

1808 TO 1811 ..........................................................

The Veto and its Aftermath

(January 1808 to December 1809) .........................

The Fifth Resolution and its Aftermath

(January to December 1810) ...................................

CHAPTER FIVE: THE FOURTH PHASE

1811 TO 1815 ..........................................................

The Regency Question

January (1811 to January 1812) ...............................

The Open Principle in Cabinet

(February to December 1812) .................................

Canning’s Bill

(January to May 1813) ..............................................

Poynter’s Recourse to Rome

(June 1813 to April) .................................................

The Quarantotti Rescript and the Genoese Letter

(May 1814 to June 1815) ..........................................

CHAPTER SIX: THE FIFTH PHASE

1815 TO 1823 ..........................................................

Character of the Period ............................................

The Split

(June 1815 to December 1817) ...............................

The Turn of the Tide

(1818 to 1820) .........................................................

The New King

(1820 to 1821) .........................................................

The Marquis Wellesley as Lord Lieutenant

(January 1822 to April 1823) ..................................

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SIXTH PHASE

1823 TO 1829 ..........................................................

The Catholic Association

(April 1823 to June 1825) .......................................

Aftermath of the ‘Algerine Act’

(June to December 1825) .......................................

The Campaigns of 1826 and 1827

(January 1826 to March 1827) ...............................

Canning and Goderich

(March to December 1827) ....................................

The Campaign of 1828

(January to December 1828) ..................................

The Passing of the Emancipation Act (1829)

(January to March 1829) .........................................

CHAPTER EIGHT: AFTERMATH ..................

The Second Election in Clare ................................

Winding up ..............................................................

Conclusions .............................................................

APPENDIX: MEMOIR OF

FREDERICK WILLIAM CONWAY

(1777-1853) ..............................................................

BIBLIOGRAPHY ...................................................

Newspapers .............................................................

Archival Material .....................................................

Printed Sources ........................................................

Dictionary of National Biography .........................

Abbreviations ...........................................................

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