The passage of the Emancipation Act in 1829 presented an opportunity for Catholics to reimagine their loyalty as equal subjects for the first time under the union between Great Britain and Ireland. This article explores the way Catholic loyalty was conceived in the decades that followed the act of 1829 through to the mid 1870s, when there was renewed focus on the civil allegiance of Catholics following the declaration of Papal infallibility. Historians are increasingly exploring a range of social, political and religious identities in nineteenth century Ireland, beyond the rigid binary paradigm of Catholic nationalisms and Protestant loyalisms that has dominated Irish historiography. However, Catholic loyalty in particular remains an anachronism and lacks sufficient conceptual clarity. Our understanding of a specifically Catholic variant of loyalty and its public and associational expression, beyond a number of biographical studies of relatively unique individuals, remains limited. By providing an exposition of episodes in the history of Catholic loyalty in the early and mid-Victorian years this article illuminates the phenomenon. It demonstrates that Irish Catholic loyalty took on different expressive forms, which were dependent on the individuals proclaiming their loyalty, their relationship to the objects of their loyalty, and its reception by the British state and Protestant establishment.

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“来自教育、责任和原则”：上下文中的爱尔兰天主教忠诚，1829-1874

1829 年《解放法案》的通过为天主教徒提供了一个机会，让他们在英国和爱尔兰联合下首次将他们的忠诚重新想象为平等的臣民。本文探讨了从 1829 年到 1870 年代中期的几十年中，天主教忠诚的构想方式，当时在宣布教皇无误后，天主教徒的公民效忠重新受到关注。历史学家越来越多地探索 19 世纪爱尔兰的一系列社会、政治和宗教身份，超越了主导爱尔兰史学的天主教民族主义和新教忠诚主义的僵化二元范式。然而，特别是天主教的忠诚仍然是一个时代错误，并且缺乏足够的概念清晰度。除了对相对独特的个人的一些传记研究之外，我们对忠诚的特定天主教变体及其公共和协会表达的理解仍然有限。通过对维多利亚时代早期和中期天主教忠诚历史中的事件的阐述，本文阐明了这一现象。它表明，爱尔兰天主教的忠诚呈现出不同的表现形式，这取决于个人宣布忠诚，他们与忠诚对象的关系，以及英国政府和新教机构的接受程度。通过对维多利亚时代早期和中期天主教忠诚历史中的事件的阐述，本文阐明了这一现象。它表明，爱尔兰天主教的忠诚呈现出不同的表现形式，这取决于个人宣布忠诚，他们与忠诚对象的关系，以及英国政府和新教机构的接受程度。通过对维多利亚时代早期和中期天主教忠诚历史中的事件的阐述，本文阐明了这一现象。它表明，爱尔兰天主教的忠诚呈现出不同的表现形式，这取决于个人宣布忠诚，他们与忠诚对象的关系，以及英国政府和新教机构的接受程度。