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In Ireland, the penal laws (Irish: Na Péindlíthe) were a series of legal disabilities imposed in the seventeenth, and early eighteenth, centuries on the kingdom's Roman Catholic majority and, to a lesser degree, on Protestant "Dissenters".
Pages in category "Penal Laws in Ireland" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Irish executioners (1 P) People executed by Ireland (9 C, 1 P) N. Penal system in Northern Ireland (2 C, 4 P) P. Prisoners and detainees of Ireland (7 C, 3 P)
Recipients of Irish presidential pardons (3 P) ... Pages in category "Penal system in the Republic of Ireland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 ...
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland, which was in existence from the 13th century until 1800. List of acts of the Parliament of Ireland, 1169–1192 List of acts of the Parliament of Ireland, 1200–1299
After the Irish Reformation, the Protestant Ascendancy to impede Roman Catholic practices passed Penal Laws, some of which created capital crimes which produced Irish Catholic Martyrs. The gallows speech was a popular genre of broadside from the Williamite revolution through the eighteenth century, feeding into popular ballads of the nineteenth ...
Penal Laws in Ireland (1 C, 9 P) R. ... Irish law by year (105 C) Pages in category "Legal history of Ireland" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 ...
William Edward Hartpole Lecky called it the most notorious of the Irish Penal Laws. [3] Inheritance in traditional Irish law used gavelkind, whereby an estate was divided equally among a dead man's sons. In contrast, English common law used male primogeniture, with the eldest son receiving the entire estate. The 1704 act enforced gavelkind for ...