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This 6 page paper discusses the Irish Parliamentary Party, which may be said to have begun the struggle for Home Rule. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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but nothing is ever certain. This paper discusses the Irish Parliamentary Party. History The tradition of parliamentary government in Ireland is a long one; its "roots predate the written history
of the country."1 Ancient tales tell of chieftains and kings and a society that could be considered largely democratic.2 At the time, the legal system was known as the "Brehon
Laws"; these laws were "common-sense, practical arrangements that facilitated people living together in a co-operative way."3 When the Normans came to the British isles in the 12th century, they successfully
established themselves near Dublin, "where they introduced the same type of feudal society, laws and parliament as they had already established in England."4 From that time until the "early modern
period," the Norman system existed alongside traditional Irish society; the Irish had "almost total independence in their political organization and day-to-day affairs."5 However, in the 16th Century a "concerted effort
was made to bring the whole country under the English system of government and the control of a parliament in Dublin."6 The struggle ended when the armies of Queen Elizabeth
I defeated the Irish forces at Kinsale in 1601; the surviving Irish chieftains left Ireland for the continent.7 The next years were full of upheaval. King James I encouraged
new settlement in Ireland, with the result that political division developed rapidly.8 James Is settlers supplanted the native Irish in the northern counties, which lead to an uprising in which
the Ulster Irish were joined by the "Catholic Old English."9 The result of the struggle was the establishment of the 1641 Kilkenny "Parliament," which was the "first attempt to establish
a central body representative of the majority of Irelands inhabitants."10 This constant struggle led to the "Protestant ascendancy," during which a series of "penal laws were enforced," including one that
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