Grattan's parliament

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 700+ words | Copyright

Grattan's parliament, a later name for the Irish parliament in the period between the achievement of legislative independence and the Act of Union, perceived by later nationalists as a golden age of prosperity through self‐government. Modern assessments more frequently emphasize the illusory nature of legislative independence, parliament's rejection of the electoral reforms that might have made it a genuinely representative body, and the continued exclusion of the Catholic majority from political rights (see penal laws). The economic prosperity of the 1780s and 1790s, once seen as a direct result of legislative independence, is also now viewed as largely independent of political arrangements.

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