Catholic Emancipation
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The Irish barrister Daniel O'Connell, who became a formidable Roman Catholic political leader in the 19th century. Initially barred by his religion from entering Parliament, his election as member of Parliament for Clare forced the British government to concede Catholic emancipation. As a pacifist, he later came into conflict with the more revolutionary ideas of the Young Ireland group.
In British history, acts of Parliament passed between 1780 and 1829 to relieve Roman Catholics of civil and political restrictions imposed from the time of Henry VIII and the Reformation.
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