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The English Roman Catholics and Emancipation: The Politics of Persuasion1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

R. W. Linker
R. W. Linker
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Associate Professor of Modern English History, Pennsylvania State University
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Discussions of the ‘Catholic Question’ of the early nineteenth century have concentrated almost exclusively upon developments in Ireland, where demagogues, priests, and peasants cleverly contrived to extort Emancipation from a protestant parliament. The historian's choice of focus scarcely requires explanation, what with the purport of Irish events and the relentless logic with which the O'Connellites had organised their following. And yet, despite the emphases of scholarship, the concessions of 1829 actually represented a triumph on both sides of St. George's Channel. The Catholic Saxon as well as the Catholic Celt, each in his own way, had contributed to the joyous outcome, and quite possibly neither would have succeeded without the other.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , April 1976 , pp. 151 - 180
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page 175 note 4 The Speech of Edward Blount, Esq., Secretary to the British Catholic Association, as delivered at an open meeting of the Committee of that Association, held on Wednesday, the 26th of July, 1826, at their Rooms, Thorney Street, Bloomsbury.

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page 176 note 2 Speech of Edward Blount.

page 176 note 3 Corby MSS., Box 3, Xa: Eneas MacDonnell to Henry Howard, 16 November 1826; ibid., Box 3, Ser. No. 5: Joseph de Courcy Laffan to Henry Howard, 24 June 1828.

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page 179 note 2 Corby MSS., Box 3, Ka: Henry Howard's Retrospect; Ward, Eve, iii, 269; LB: E.B. to Daniel O'Connell, 20 May 1829; ibid.: E.B. to the Rev. Mr. Green, 1 May 1829.

page 179 note 3 Ibid.: Corby MSS., Box 3, Ka: Henry Howard's Retrospect. Evidently conceived as an essay in impartiality, for the sake of placating the Irish, the draft ended as an encomium upon the Cousinhood and their politics. The adjective, ‘prominent’, Mr. Howard employed in the sense of ‘conspicuous’, in order to suggest other, underlying factors of greater significance.

page 180 note 1 A.B. MSS., C.2432: Letter by Fr. Joseph Berington, 18 November 1825. For the Cousinhood's self-deception, see Machin, Catholic Question: Duffy, ‘Ecclesiastical Democracy: III’, 139. For the influence of the Enlightenment, see ibid., 138–144.