Repeal Association in the context of "The Nation (Irish newspaper)"

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⭐ Core Definition: Repeal Association

The Loyal National Repeal Association (commonly referred to as the Repeal Association) was an Irish political party formed by Daniel O'Connell in 1840 to campaign for the repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.

The Association sought to restore the Irish Parliament and achieve the level of legislative independence briefly attained in the 1780s under Henry Grattan and his patriots, with the addition of Catholic emancipation, made possible by the Act of Emancipation in 1829, and the expanded francise of the Irish Reform Act 1832, in addition to responsible government, making Ireland a separate kingdom in a personal union with Great Britain on equal footing. It advocated a peaceful and constitutional path to repeal while maintaining loyalty to the British Crown.

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👉 Repeal Association in the context of The Nation (Irish newspaper)

The Nation was an Irish nationalist weekly newspaper, published in the 1840s initially in support of the Repeal Association of Daniel O'Connell. Against the background of the Great Famine, the Young Ireland group of writers associated with the weekly, broke with O'Connell arguing for a radical confrontation with the system of British rule. After the abortive Rebellion of 1848, many of the group were convicted of sedition, and the paper was suppressed.

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Repeal Association in the context of Young Ireland

Young Ireland (Irish: Éire Óg, IPA: [ˈeːɾʲə ˈoːɡ]) was a political and cultural movement in the 1840s committed to an all-Ireland struggle for independence and democratic reform. Grouped around the Dublin weekly The Nation, it took issue with the compromises and clericalism of the larger national movement, Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association, from which it seceded in 1847. Despairing, in the face of the Great Famine, of any other course, in 1848 Young Irelanders attempted an insurrection. Following the arrest and the exile of most of their leading figures, the movement split between those who carried the commitment to "physical force" forward into the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and those who sought to build a "League of North and South" linking an independent Irish parliamentary party to tenant agitation for land reform.

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LINKED FROM (PARENTS)
← Young Ireland ← The Nation (Irish newspaper)
LINKS TO (CHILDREN)
List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland → Daniel O'Connell → Repeal → Acts of Union 1800 → Parliament of Ireland → Henry Grattan → Irish Patriot Party → Catholic emancipation → Catholic Emancipation → Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1832 → Responsible government → Personal union →