John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare
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John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare
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John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare PC (Ire) was Attorney-General for Ireland from 1783 to 1789 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1789 to 1802. He remains a deeply controversial figure in Irish history, being described variously as an old fashioned anti-Catholic Whig political party hardliner and an early advocate of the Act of Union between Ireland and Great Britain. He is said to have been an early and extremely militant opponent of Catholic Emancipation. The Earl may also have been the first
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18th-century Irish politician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_FitzGibbon,_1st_Earl_of_Clare
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2005-04-20T13:05:04Z
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2024-08-29T07:17:26Z
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