Trevor Lambertson
Owen Mackenzie
Ryan Kelleher
Abiri Aratow
Ireland Information
3. What was the Act of Union of 1800? How did it affect Ireland?
- Was exempt from exchequer, but were responsible for 2/7 of the general expense courts
- New state was to be called the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”
- Act of the Union was an act uniting great Britain, Ireland and Scottland
- Passed in 1800, put into place on New Year's’ Day, 1801
- The Dublin government was abolished when this act was signed
- After the 1798 rebellion in Ireland, concerns over the relations of the 2 countries flared in Britain
- Free trade between ireland and england
- Ireland’s “first reform act” laid out a scheme for parliamentary action
- It was the idea of William Pitt
- Catholics wanted to be able to run for Parliament so that Britain and Ireland’s unification would go more smoothly, but King George III vetoed this
- Now there was no irish parliament just the parliament in London
- The Union remained until the recognition of the Irish free state
- To get this act to pass, the English had to bribe and fake votes because the Irish were opposed to this
- Anglo-Irish treaty in 1922 was when Ireland left the Union
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