History A-Level
Catholic emancipation and religious grievances
What Catholic emancipation and religious grievances means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The demand of the United Irishmen, alongside a republic, and the Catholic grievances linked to the Tithe Wars resisting Anglican tithes.
Topics that use Catholic emancipation and religious grievances
- Paper 3, Option 36.2: Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 - 1 Irish nationalism: from agitation to civil war (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Constitutional nationalism vs physical force
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- Home Rule League
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- Irish Parliamentary Party
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