Niamh GarveyI've been researching #Connemara in the #1800s lately, and am amazed to learn that it was seen as its own kingdown and it escaped the Penal laws. The Irish people there were amazingly able to educate their kids and practice their religion, and also had very safe and secure tenacies, so very different to the rest of Ireland under #BritishRule.
(#PenalLaws were british laws that Irish people were not allowed speak irish, practice catholicism, own land, have a profession etc).
Infrapink (he/his/him)While #Britain was still using the #julianCalendar, #Catholics in #Ireland had to seek permission from the #pope to celebrate festivals on the wrong days because Catholicism was, to all intents and purposes, illegal at the time.
History of ParliamentThe Declaration of Indulgence (1672) suspended the execution of the Penal Laws and attempted to extend religious freedom for Protestant nonconformists & Catholics. But this supposedly tolerant measure was met with heavy criticism.
@pseaward1 explains 👇
http://ow.ly/CST750Lgni9
#Catholic #PenalLaws #CharlesII #Restoration #Histodons #Religion
