The religious struggles of the seventeenth century…

1684 CE to 1827 CE

The religious struggles of the seventeenth century leave a deep sectarian division in Ireland.

Religious allegiance now determines the perception in law of loyalty to the Irish King and Parliament.

After the passing of the Test Act 1672, and with the victory of the forces of the dual monarchy of William and Mary over the Jacobites, Roman Catholics and nonconforming Protestant Dissenters have been barred from sitting as members in the Irish Parliament.

Under the emerging Penal Laws, Irish Roman Catholics and Dissenters are increasingly deprived of various and sundry civil rights even to the ownership of hereditary property.

Additional regressive punitive legislation follows in 1703, 1709 and 1728.

This completes a comprehensive systemic effort to materially disadvantage Roman Catholics and Protestant Dissenters, while enriching a new ruling class of Anglican conformists.

The new Anglo-Irish ruling class becomes known as the Protestant Ascendancy.

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Mary II of England View → William III, Prince of Orange View →

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