The Catholic Association, founded in 1823 by…
May 1823 CE
to better Irish Catholics, such as: electoral reform, reform of the Church of Ireland, tenants' rights, and economic development.
Beginning at a meeting of thirteen people at a bookseller's house, on Capel Street in Dublin, this is the latest in a series of similar associations formed over the previous ten years or so; none of these had prospered.
Like the other associations, this new association is composed mainly of the middle-class elite: the annual subscription amounting to a guinea, an amount equivalent to what an average farmer pays for six months' rent.