The Peel Web

Primary sources

• Roman Catholic Claims 17 May 1819
• The Catholic Question (1)
  • The Times
  • Morning Herald
  A Foreign and Domestic View of the Catholic Question: Henry Gally Knight, 1828
• The County Clare election, 1828
  • Daniel O'Connell's election manifesto
  • Vesey Fitzgerald's letter to Peel
• The Duke of Wellington's letter to Dr Patrick Curtis, 11 December 1828
• Dr Patrick Curtis' letter to the Duke of Wellington, 19 December 1828
• The Marquis of Anglesea's letter to Dr Patrick Curtis, 23 December 1828
• The Duke of Wellington's letter to Patrick Curtis, 26 December 1828
• Dr Patrick Curtis' letter to the Duke of Wellington, 29 December 1828
• Recall of the Marquis of Anglesea, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: December 1828
• The Marquis of Anglesea's departure from Ireland, January 1829
• Peel and Catholic Emancipation: 12 January 1829
• Peel's memo on Catholic Emancipation, January 1829
• The King's Speech at the opening of Parliament, 5 February 1829
• Peel's speech on Catholic Emancipation, 5 February 1829
• The Earl of Winchelsea's call to Protestants 9 February 1829
• The Oxford University election: 26 February 1829
• Pro- and anti-Catholic meetings: 28 February 1829
• The English anti-Catholic Press: 20 February 1829
• The Catholic Relief Bill - from the Dublin Freeman's Journal, early March 1829
• The Late Catholic Association - from the Dublin Evening Post, early March 1829
• The Duke of Wellington's speech on Catholic Emancipation: 2 April 1829
• Wellington's parliamentary speeches on Catholic Emancipation (index page)
• Peel and Catholic Emancipation
• Greville on Catholic Emancipation
• The Greville Memoirs, chapter IV
• An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects (13 April 1829)
• Catholic Emancipation in the newspapers

Narratives of events

• English attitudes to the Catholic Church
• The campaign for Catholic Emancipation
• The Catholic Association
• The significance of Catholic Emancipation (PowerPoint presentation)
• Daniel O'Connell (biography)
• Dr Patrick Curtis (biography)
• Wellington and Catholic Emancipation

• The Duke of Wellington and Catholic Emancipation (this is a very long document, taken from Gleig's "Life of Wellington", 1862)

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