Irish Patriot Party
The Irish Patriot Party was the name of a number of different political groupings in Ireland throughout the 18th century. They were primarily supportive of Whig concepts of personal liberty combined with an Irish identity that rejected full independence, but advocated strong self-government within the British Empire.
Irish Patriot Party | |
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| Leader | Henry Flood (1760s–1775) Henry Grattan (1775–1801) |
| Founded | 1760s |
| Dissolved | 1801 |
| Ideology | Irish nationalism Irish autonomy Classical liberalism Free Trade |
Due to the discriminatory penal laws, the Irish Parliament at the time was exclusively Anglican Protestant. Their main achievement was the Constitution of 1782, which gave Ireland legislative independence.
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