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==Penal laws in Ireland==
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The Penal Laws were introduced into Ireland in the year 1695, disenfranchising nonconformists in favour of the minority established [[Church of Ireland]], aligned with the Protestant [[Church of England]]. The laws' principal victims were members of the [[Catholic Church]], numbering over three quarters of the population in the south, and adherents of the [[Presbyterian Church in Ireland]], a majority of the population in [[Ulster]]. These laws included:
*[[Education Act 1695|Education Act]] 1695
*[[Banishment Act]] 1697
*[[Registration Act 1704|Registration Act]] 1704
*[[Popery Act]] 1704 and 1709
*[[Disenfranchising Act]] 1728

The laws were eventually repealed, beginning in the 1770s by the 1774 [[Quebec Act]] and the [[Papists Act 1778]]. The British [[Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791]] was followed in Ireland in 1793. Finally in 1829 [[Catholic emancipation]] was enacted, largely due to Irish political agitation organised under [[Daniel O'Connell]] in the 1820s. [[Sectarianism]] between Catholics and Protestants persisted through the 20th century, and its effects can still be seen, particularly in [[Northern Ireland]], today.