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Monster Essays - Why the Penal Laws Failed
Why the Penal Laws Failed
During the eighteenth century many Protestant leaders in Ireland
became increasingly nervous about the gradually augmenting wealth and power
of the Catholics who inhabited Ireland. In an attempt to cease the growth
of the Catholics and in truth, try to convert as many Catholics into
Protestants…the Penal Laws were created. The Penal Laws were a collection
of laws set up by the Irish parliament between the years of 1691 and 1794.
The object of the Penal Laws was threefold; to deprive the Catholics of all
civil life. To reduce them to a condition of the most extreme and brutal
ignorance, and finally, to dissociate them from the so....
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