Grattan

Question 1

When was Grattan?

Answer 1

1805-1823

Question 2

Gratttan’s aims? (3)

Answer 2

• emancipation
• political stability
• irish parliament

Question 3

Grattan failures? (5)

Answer 3

• appeasement, episcopal appointments
• irrelevant to people
• monarchs
• solo (bill failed 281-128)
• Tories - opposition and coercion

Question 4

Did Grattan fail or succeed?

Answer 4

failed

Question 5

Grattan successes? (3)

Answer 5

• first to bring to HoC - 1808, 1813, 1817
• attempted mass mob - catholic board 1810, catholic association 1814
• Yorkshire seat 1805, Dublin seat 1806-1820

Question 6

Grattan quotes (4)

Answer 6

• Beckett “Their fear of antagonising the government made them cautious.”
• Rees “The debate on emancipation seemed as distant as the debate on the union.”
• Tory backbencher “I care no more for a Catholic than for the Chinese.”
• Grattan “the Irish Protestant cannot be free until the Irish Catholic has ceased to be a slave.”