• Ireland was mostly catholic, hierarchal society
  • Catholics and Presbyterians had to pay tithes
  • Frustration due to limited rights
• Had different reasons for revolution
  • Frustration from religious discrimination
  • Improvements to quality of life
  • Sparked by American and French revolutions
  • General desire for independence
• Allied to form the United Irishmen in 1791
  • Were underrepresented in government
• Fall of United Irishmen when leaders were put in jail
  • Without proper leadership, were unorganized
  • Defeated some British in smaller, more local battles
    • Could not win against British in larger battles
• After revolution failed, signed the Act of Union in 1801
  • Ireland merged with Great Britain to become United Kingdom
  • Abolished the Irish Parliament