The Irish Coercion Act was passed by parliament^[1] in 1881. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories Year 1881 ( MDCCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common This act, introduced by Gladstone, allowed persons to be imprisoned without trial. A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of ^[2]

Events leading to the act

In December 1816, a mass meeting took place at Spa Fields near London due to the discontent of the sans-culottes. Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Sans-culottes ( French for "without Knee-breeches " was a term created around 1790 - 1792 by the French Aristocracy to describe the The Coercion Act of 1817 was an act of Parliament that suspended Habeas Corpus and extended existing laws against seditious gatherings in Britain. Year 1817 ( MDCCCXVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common An Act of Parliament is a Law enacted as Primary legislation by a national or sub-national Parliament. Habeas corpus (ˈheɪbiəs ˈkɔɹpəs ( Latin: command that you have the body is the name of a legal action or Writ, through which a person can seek relief The Coercion Act was the result of this mass meeting.

An Irish Coercion Bill was proposed by Sir Robert Peel to calm the increasing difficult situation in Ireland as a result of the potato famine 1844-47. Sir Robert Peel 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 &ndash 2 July 1850 was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world The Bill was blocked and this led to Peel's retirement as Prime Minister. Later attempts to intoduce Irish coercion acts were blocked by the fillibustering of Joseph Biggar. Joseph Gillis Biggar (1828– February 19 1890) commonly known as Joe Biggar or J

During the Irish Land War a Coercion Act was enacted in 1881. The Land War in Irish History was a period of Agrarian agitation in rural Ireland in the 1870s 1880s and 1890s Year 1881 ( MDCCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In reaction to a 41 hour long obstruction in the House of Commons, instigated by the Home Rule league As a response to the Plan of Campaign of the mid 1880s the new Chief Secretary for Ireland Arthur Balfour secured a tough Perpetual Crimes Act (1887) (or Coercion Act) aimed at the prevention of boycotting, intimidation, unlawful assembly and the organisation of conspiracies against the payment of rents. The House of Commons is the name of the elected Lower house of the Bicameral Parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. The Home Rule League, sometimes called the Home Rule Party, was a Political party which campaigned for Home rule for the island of Ireland from 1873 to The Plan of Campaign was a stratagem adopted in Ireland between 1886 and 1891 co-ordinated by Irish politicians for the benefit of Tenant farmers Events and Trends Technology Development and commercial production of Electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered The office before 1800 The dominant position of the Lord Lieutenant in the Irish governmental system had been central to the British administration for much of the history of Arthur James Balfour 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 - 19 March 1930 was a British Conservative politician and Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common A boycott is a form of Consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using buying or dealing with someone or some other organization as an expression of Unlawful assembly is a Legal term to describe a group of people with the mutual intent of deliberate disturbance of the peace The Act resulted in the imprisonment of hundreds of people including over twenty MPs, all of whom had done no more than help evicted tenants. The so-called Crimes Act (or "Coercion" Act) was condemned by the Catholic hierarchy since it was to become a permanent part of the law and did not have to be renewed annually by parliament. This article refers to hierarchy in the Catholic Church. For hierarchy in other communions with a "catholic" character please see articles on the churches Trial by jury was abolished.

Notable persons affected

Many hundreds were imprisioned at times under the Acts, including many prominent agrarian agitators, Charles Stewart Parnell, William O'Brien, Michael Davitt, John Dillon, Willie Redmond, Pat O'Brien, Joseph Biggar, Alexander Blane, Patrick Guiney, James Gilhooly, Matthew Harris, John Hayden, J. E. Kenny, James O'Kelly, Timothy Sullivan. Charles Stewart Parnell ( 27 June 1846 &ndash 6 October 1891) was an Irish Protestant landowner nationalist William O'Brien (Irish Parliamentary Party should not be confused with his contemporary William X Michael Davitt ( Irish name: Mícheál Mac Dáibhéid) ( March 25, 1846 &ndash May 30, 1906) was an Irish John Dillon (4 September 1851 – 4 August 1927 was an Irish land reform agitator Irish Home Rule activist nationalist politician Member of Parliament William Hoey Kearney Redmond ( 15 April, 1861 &ndash 9 June, 1917) (commonly known as Willie Redmond) was an Irish Patrick O'Brien (c 1847 - July 12, 1917) generally known as Pat was Irish Nationalist MP in the House Of Commons Joseph Gillis Biggar (1828– February 19 1890) commonly known as Joe Biggar or J Alexander Blane (c1850 – ? was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain Patrick Guiney (1862-1913 was an Irish Nationalist politician and MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. James Gilhooly (1847&ndash1916 was an Irish nationalist politician and MP Matthew Harris (also Mat or Matt) (1826– 13 April 1890) was an Irish Fenian, Land Leaguer, nationalist John Patrick Hayden ( 25 April 1863 &ndash 3 July 1954) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP Joseph Edward Kenny (1845 – April 9, 1900) was an Irish physician Coronor of the City of Dublin, nationalist politician and James Joseph O'Kelly (born sometime in 1845 died 22 December 1916) was an Irish nationalist Journalist, Politician and Timothy Daniel Sullivan ( 29 May[[ 827]]- 31 March[[ 914]] was an Irish nationalist, Journalist, Politician and Poet

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