A wide scheme for Irish university education…
December 1845 CE
A wide scheme for Irish university education is passed into law in 1845.
The liberality of Peel's Irish policy, especially the greatly increased grant to the Catholic seminary of Maynooth, arouses strong Protestant feeling in England, severely straining relations with his own party.
The potato disease in 1845, bringing with it the certainty of widespread famine in Ireland, completes the breach.
Peel has already come to the conviction that the Corn Laws would have to be abolished sooner or later.
His decision in the autumn of 1845 that a relief program for Ireland must be accompanied by the repeal of the Corn Laws had splits his Cabinet and led to his resignation, but when Lord John Russell fails to form a free-trade ministry in December 1845, Peel returns to office.
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