Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793

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rdf:langString An Act for the relief of his majesty's Roman Catholic subjects of Ireland.

rdf:langString Parliament of Ireland

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rdf:langString The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793 (33 Geo. III, c.21) is an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, relieving Roman Catholics of certain political, educational, and economic disabilities. The Act was introduced by the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Robert Hobart, two years after the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Irish Act included certain local provisions such as allowing Catholics to take degrees at Trinity College Dublin. Catholic schools had already been permitted again by the Catholic Relief Act 1782, subject to the teachers taking the Oath of Allegiance and obtaining a license from the local Church of Ireland Bishop. It repealed the provisions of the Disfranchising Act 1728 which had prohibited Catholics from voting. However, it did not remove the terms of the parliamentary oath which prohibited Catholics from sitting in parliament. This was altered by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (the kingdoms having been joined in 1801 by the Acts of Union 1800).