Kingdom of Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland (Irish: Ríoghacht Éireanncode: ga is deprecated ) was a country in Western Europe. It was created by King Henry VIII of England by an act of the Irish Parliament in 1541. It had been a colony previously. It was subservient to England partially because of a law passed by the Irish Parliament during Henry VII's reign called Poynings's law which was sponsored by Sir Edward Poynings the Lord Deputy and gave the English Parliament power to veto Irish legislation. It was abolished in 1801 when it joined the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Its lands are now part of two states. These states are the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The lands in the United Kingdom have the name Northern Ireland.

Kingdom of Ireland Irish: Ríocht na hÉireanncode: ga is deprecated
1541 – 1651 1659 – 1801
Capital	Dublin
Common languages	Irish, English
Government	Monarchy
King3
• 1542-1547	Henry VIII
• 1760-1801	George III
Chief Secretary
• 1660	Matthew Lock
• 1798-1801	Viscount Castlereagh
Legislature	Parliament of Ireland
• Upper house	Irish House of Lords
• Lower house	Irish House of Commons
History
•	1541
•	January 1 1801
ISO 3166 code	IE
Preceded by Succeeded by Lordship of Ireland Gaelic Ireland Confederate Ireland Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Kingdom Of Ireland Media

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  Charlotte Schreiber's The Croppy Boy (1879), relating to the United Irishmen's Wexford Rebellion. A man, possibly a rebel from his green cravat, kneels before a Catholic priest who is covertly in military uniform. The church hierarchy opposed the rebellion.

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  Trinity College Dublin was founded by the Elizabethans to serve as the organ of the Anglican intelligentsia.

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  After Cromwell's victory, huge areas of land were confiscated from the Gaelic nobility and the Irish Catholics were banished to the lands of Connacht.

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  Coat of arms with the crest

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  Crowned harp on a farthing coin of 1744