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The Penal Laws: How Ireland's Catholics Were Crushed After the Boyne
After the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland enacted a brutal code of laws designed to strip Catholics of land, power, education, and basic rights. This episode explores the Penal Laws — not a single act but a web of statutes passed between 1695 and the 1720s — that banned Catholics from buying land, bearing arms, running schools, voting, practicing law, or even owning a horse worth more than £5. We trace how these laws dispossessed Catholic gentry, forced worship underground to hedge schools and mass rocks, and created a two-tier society that lasted into the…
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