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The Penal Laws: Ireland's Unwritten Constitution of Protestant Ascendancy
Lucas and Luna explore the system of Penal Laws that governed Catholic and dissenter life in Ireland from the 1690s onward. They discuss the key statutes — the Popery Act, the Banishment Act, and the Test Act — and how these laws stripped Catholics of land ownership, education, and political rights. The conversation covers the impact on Catholic gentry like the Jacobite poet Seamus Dall MacCuarta and the system's long-term effects on Irish society, including the rise of the 'gavelkind' loophole and the preservation of Catholic faith through hedge schools. Lucas explains how the…
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