JOURNAL ARTICLE

Empire and emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic fringe, 1780–1850.

  • Published In: Irish Historical Studies, 2023, v. 47, n. 171. P. 160 1 of 3

  • Database: America: History and Life with Full Text 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Campbell, Malcolm 3 of 3

Abstract

In British North America, and in Trinidad, the significant size of the Scottish and Irish Catholic populations ensured local administrations acknowledged and arrived at accommodations with Catholic populations earlier and with more urgency than was conceivable in Georgian Britain. Though Quebec, with its substantial French Catholic population, constituted a special case, Kehoe shows that through this Atlantic fringe rapid population growth that included sizeable Catholic communities hastened measures to instil and protect religious tolerance. In Australia, for example, historians of Irish migration and settlement have often taken Catholic Emancipation in 1829 as the watershed for the beginning of a new, more accommodationist colonial environment. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Irish Historical Studies. 2023/05, Vol. 47, Issue 171, p160
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0021-1214
  • DOI:10.1017/ihs.2023.15
  • Accession Number:164008700
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