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The Penal Laws: Ireland's Divided Island
In the decades after the Williamite War, Ireland became a laboratory for Protestant supremacy. Lucas and Luna explore the Penal Laws—a system of statutes that stripped Irish Catholics of land, education, political power, and even the right to own a horse worth more than five pounds. They trace the acts from their origins in the 1690s through their brutal enforcement and eventual erosion in the late 1700s. Along the way, they meet the 'priest hunters' who stalked outlawed clergy, the hedge schools where children learned Latin in secret, and the Catholic gentry who navigated a maze of…
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