The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by
Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a
repeal
A repeal (O.F. ''rapel'', modern ''rappel'', from ''rapeler'', ''rappeler'', revoke, ''re'' and ''appeler'', appeal) is the removal or reversal of a law. There are two basic types of repeal; a repeal with a re-enactment is used to replace the law ...
of the
Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.
The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to the
fully devolved government briefly achieved by
Henry Grattan and his
patriots in the 1780s—that is, complete legislative independence for the
Parliament of Ireland under the British Crown—but this time with Catholic
voting rights
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in representative democracy, public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in ...
that were now possible following the
Act of Emancipation in 1829, supported by the electorate approved under the
Irish Reform Act 1832. On its failure by the late 1840s the
Young Ireland movement developed.
Repealer candidates contested the
1832 United Kingdom general election
The 1832 United Kingdom general election was held on 8 December 1832 to 8 January 1833. The first election to be held in the newly-reformed House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the Whigs (British political party), Whigs und ...
in Ireland. Between 1835 and 1841, they formed a pact with the
Whigs. Repealer candidates, unaffiliated with the Whig Party, contested the
1841 and
1847 general elections.
Electoral statistics
The seats figure in brackets is the position after election petitions and by-elections consequent upon election petitions, had been decided. There were 105 Irish MPs in the period.
Votes in 1835 and 1837 are included in the
Liberal totals in Rallings and Thrasher's tables.
Sources: Walker and
Rallings & Thrasher.
See also
*
History of Ireland (1801–1923)
*
Catholic Association
*
Young Ireland
External links
Loyal National Repeal Association
References
*''British Electoral Facts 1832 - 1999'', compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2000)
*''Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922'', edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
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