{"slug": "parliament-of-ireland", "label": "Parliament of Ireland", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Ireland", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1889821", "qid": "Q1889821", "description": "historical parliament of Ireland (1297–1800)", "entries": 47, "years": 44, "span": [1264, 1801], "span_label": ["1264 CE", "1801 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 35}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "dublin", "label": "Dublin", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "henry-viii", "label": "Henry VIII", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "lordship-of-ireland", "label": "Lordship of Ireland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-ireland", "label": "Kingdom of Ireland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lord-lieutenant-of-ireland", "label": "Lord Lieutenant of Ireland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "james-vi-and-i", "label": "James VI and I", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "county-kildare", "label": "County Kildare", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edward-ii", "label": "Edward II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-catholic-church", "label": "Roman Catholic Church", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mary-i", "label": "Mary I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "connacht", "label": "Connacht", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1264, "year_label": "1264 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The earliest known Irish Parliament met at Castledermot on 18 June.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1264643899#Events", "title": "1264 in Ireland", "revid": 1264643899, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1264, "year_label": "1264 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitely known meeting of this Irish legislature.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334426011#British_Isles", "title": "1264", "revid": 1334426011, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1310, "year_label": "1310 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – At Dublin, acting in his capacity as Lord of Ireland, King Edward II of England (as Éadbhard II Shasana, Tiarna Éireann) opens the first session of the Parliament of Ireland during his administration. The Irish Parliament will hold 14 sessions before being dismissed in 1326.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018292#January_–_March", "title": "1310", "revid": 1332018292, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1364, "year_label": "1364 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Lyonel, Duke of Clarence, sent by his father, King Edward III as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to subdue the Irish. He was also the Earl of Ulster and Lord of Connaught, through marriage to his wife, Elizabeth, the only child of the Brown Earl of Ulster. This was his 2nd of 3 attempts. In a few years, as a result of these fruitless shows of force, he had Parliament issue the Statute of Kilkenny.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367037588#Events", "title": "1364 in Ireland", "revid": 1367037588, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1458, "year_label": "1458 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Parliament of Ireland withdraws attaintment against John Cantwell II, Archbishop of Cashel, on grounds of ill-health.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1324328699#Events", "title": "1458 in Ireland", "revid": 1324328699, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1465, "year_label": "1465 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Parliament of Ireland passes the City of Cork Act 1465.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367185687#Events", "title": "1465 in Ireland", "revid": 1367185687, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1470, "year_label": "1470 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Irish Parliament passed legislation concerning relations between the Pale and neighbouring Gaelic lordships. The inhabitants of Saggart were ordered to abandon their truce with the O'Tooles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367380633#Events", "title": "1470 in Ireland", "revid": 1367380633, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1484, "year_label": "1484 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 15", "text": "15 October – Great Council (sitting of the Parliament of Ireland) at Naas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332535684#Events", "title": "1484 in Ireland", "revid": 1332535684, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1492, "year_label": "1492 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "James Fleming, 7th Baron Slane, member of the Parliament of Ireland (from sweating sickness).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318939962#Deaths", "title": "1492 in Ireland", "revid": 1318939962, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1494, "year_label": "1494 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – The Irish Parliament opens at Drogheda on the first Monday after Saint Andrew's Day as summoned by Sir Edward Poynings, to pass the two \"Poynings' Laws\" restricting Irish self-government. The more drastic of the two laws provides that laws already enacted in England apply to Ireland as well, while the other law directs that the Irish Parliament cannot be summoned without prior approval by the King of England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353371082#October–December", "title": "1494", "revid": 1353371082, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1494, "year_label": "1494 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – Edward Poynings assembles the Parliament of Ireland in Drogheda to tell it that it is thereafter to be placed under the authority of the Privy Council of England by Poynings' Law (1495).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318942897#Events", "title": "1494 in Ireland", "revid": 1318942897, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1495, "year_label": "1495 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Poynings' Law comes into effect, placing the Parliament of Ireland under the authority of the Parliament of England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365256979#Date_unknown", "title": "1495", "revid": 1365256979, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1537, "year_label": "1537 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "c. October – the Parliament of Ireland approves the Act of Supremacy by passing An Act authorising the King, His Heirs and Successors, to be supreme Head of the Church of Ireland and legislation enforcing Dissolution of the Monasteries together with the Treason Act (Ireland) 1537.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318938639#Events", "title": "1537 in Ireland", "revid": 1318938639, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1541, "year_label": "1541 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – by the Crown of Ireland Act, the Parliament of Ireland, meeting in Dublin, declares King Henry VIII of England and his heirs to be Kings of Ireland, replacing the Lordship of Ireland with the Kingdom of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369352416#Events", "title": "1541 in Ireland", "revid": 1369352416, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1542, "year_label": "1542 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 15", "text": "15 February – 7/10 March: the Parliament of Ireland meets in Limerick and re-enacts the Crown of Ireland Act, declaring King Henry VIII of England and his heirs to be Kings of Ireland, for the benefit of Munster and Connacht.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367908561#Events", "title": "1542 in Ireland", "revid": 1367908561, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1542, "year_label": "1542 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – The Parliament of Ireland passes the Crown of Ireland Act, which dissolves the title of Lord of Ireland and reestablishes it to the Kingdom of Ireland, with its last Lord, Henry VIII of England, becoming its first king.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359947406#April–June", "title": "1542", "revid": 1359947406, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1557, "year_label": "1557 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – July 2: the Parliament of Ireland, meeting in Dublin, passes acts confirming the creation of King's County (now County Offaly) and Queen's County (now County Laois) with their respective county towns of Philipstown and Maryborough; repeals statutes directed against the Roman Catholic Church; declares the monarchy of Ireland to rest in Mary I of England; and acknowledges the monarch's right to amend legislative proposals. James Stanihurst is Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1324328107#Events", "title": "1557 in Ireland", "revid": 1324328107, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1585, "year_label": "1585 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 26", "text": "26 April – 25 May – Parliament of Ireland meets in Dublin with Sir Nicholas Walsh as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, is permitted to take his seat.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428620#Events", "title": "1585 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428620, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1611, "year_label": "1611 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 25", "text": "25 November – the nobility and gentry claim the right to have advance sight of bills intended for the Parliament of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320625448#Events", "title": "1611 in Ireland", "revid": 1320625448, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1614, "year_label": "1614 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 2", "text": "April 2 – James I rebukes a deputation from the Catholic opposition in the Parliament of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247388215#Events", "title": "1614 in Ireland", "revid": 1247388215, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 24", "text": "24 October – James I's Parliament of Ireland is dissolved (its third session having been held 18 April–16 May).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247388225#Events", "title": "1615 in Ireland", "revid": 1247388225, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1628, "year_label": "1628 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Members of the Parliament of Ireland propose The Graces, in an attempt to reverse anti-Catholic legislation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247388114#Events", "title": "1628 in Ireland", "revid": 1247388114, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1634, "year_label": "1634 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Parliament of Ireland accepts the Thirty-Nine Articles under pressure from King Charles and Archbishop Laud.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359486800#Events", "title": "1634 in Ireland", "revid": 1359486800, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1635, "year_label": "1635 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 18", "text": "April 18 – the Parliament of Ireland passes an act requiring ale sellers to be licensed by magistrates; \"An Act against Plowing by the Tayle, and pulling the Wooll off living Sheep\"; and an act providing for the erection of houses of correction.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318940532#Events", "title": "1635 in Ireland", "revid": 1318940532, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1662, "year_label": "1662 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Act of Settlement, passed by the Parliament of Ireland, orders that settlers under the Cromwellian Act of Settlement 1652 should give up a portion of their allotted land to \"Old English\" and \"innocent Catholics\". The first Court of Claims sits from 20 September 1662 to 21 August 1663.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387397#Events", "title": "1662 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387397, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Parliament of Ireland meets for the last time until 1692 (apart from the Patriot Parliament of 1689).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387450#Events", "title": "1666 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387450, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1689, "year_label": "1689 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 7", "text": "7 May–20 July – first and only session of the Patriot Parliament, the Parliament of Ireland called by James II in Dublin, with Richard Nagle as Speaker. This declares that James remains King, passes The Great Act of Attainder against those who have rebelled against him and repeals the Act of Settlement (1662) while, at James's urging, also passing an Act for Liberty of Conscience.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366636271#Events", "title": "1689 in Ireland", "revid": 1366636271, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1692, "year_label": "1692 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 5", "text": "5 October – the first meeting of the Parliament of Ireland under William III is held. This is the first time it has met for 26 years (apart from the Patriot Parliament of 1689). It passes An Act of Recognition of their Majesties undoubted Right to the Crown of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326391680#Events", "title": "1692 in Ireland", "revid": 1326391680, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1695, "year_label": "1695 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 27", "text": "27 August – Parliament of Ireland opens. Robert Rochfort is elected Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371132767#Events", "title": "1695 in Ireland", "revid": 1371132767, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1699, "year_label": "1699 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 26", "text": "January 26–June 14 – the Parliament of Ireland meets and enacts legislation to levy duties on exported woolens; to encourage the construction of parsonages; to oblige landowners to plant and conserve trees; and to prevent Roman Catholics from becoming solicitors.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387145#Events", "title": "1699 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387145, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1703, "year_label": "1703 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Parliament of Ireland assembles on 21 September, the first under Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and the first for five years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1329193935#Events", "title": "1703 in Ireland", "revid": 1329193935, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1707, "year_label": "1707 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 24", "text": "October 24 - an act of the Parliament of Ireland creates the Dublin Ballast Office to improve Dublin Port.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386686#Events", "title": "1707 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386686, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 30", "text": "August 30 – the Parliament of Ireland passes an amending act which requires any adult male (including registered Roman Catholic priests) to take an oath of abjuration if required by a magistrate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386704#Events", "title": "1709 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386704, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1713, "year_label": "1713 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November", "text": "November–December – Parliament of Ireland meets and is prorogued without voting supply beyond the end of the year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386530#Events", "title": "1713 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386530, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1715, "year_label": "1715 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "County Palatine of Tipperary Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, enables purchase by the crown of rights and revenues in County Tipperary held by the Dukes of Ormonde.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386552#Events", "title": "1715 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386552, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 2", "text": "November 2 – the Toleration Act (\"For exempting the Protestant Dissenters of this kingdom from certain penalties to which they are now subject\"), passed by the Parliament of Ireland, receives Royal Assent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386595#Events", "title": "1719 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386595, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1728, "year_label": "1728 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 6", "text": "May 6 – Disenfranchising Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of penal laws, prohibiting all Roman Catholics from voting, receives royal assent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1273814804#Events", "title": "1728 in Ireland", "revid": 1273814804, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1731, "year_label": "1731 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Parliament of Ireland first meets in the new Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green in Dublin designed by Edward Lovett Pearce.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386250#Events", "title": "1731 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386250, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1736, "year_label": "1736 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 17", "text": "March 17 – act of the Parliament of Ireland for rebuilding Saint Finbar's Cathedral and erecting a workhouse in Cork.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386319#Events", "title": "1736 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386319, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1759, "year_label": "1759 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Henry Flood enters the Parliament of Ireland as a member for Kilkenny.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370138465#Events", "title": "1759 in Ireland", "revid": 1370138465, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Henry Grattan enters the Parliament of Ireland and becomes leader of the \"patriot party\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1296793815#Events", "title": "1775 in Ireland", "revid": 1296793815, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1776, "year_label": "1776 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 4", "text": "4 April – act of the Parliament of Ireland to prevent \"tumultuous risings\", directed against the Whiteboys.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247385659#Events", "title": "1776 in Ireland", "revid": 1247385659, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1782, "year_label": "1782 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Repeal of Act for Securing Dependence of Ireland Act, a major component of the reforms collectively known as the Constitution of 1782, which restore legislative independence to the Parliament of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370562345#April–June", "title": "1782", "revid": 1370562345, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1783, "year_label": "1783 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 17", "text": "17 April – the Renunciation Act, is passed by Westminster. It acknowledges the exclusive right of the Parliament of Ireland to legislate for Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247385494#Events", "title": "1783 in Ireland", "revid": 1247385494, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1785, "year_label": "1785 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the support of William Pitt, successfully steers a liberal trade measure through the Parliament of Ireland, initially against the opposition of Henry Grattan and Henry Flood. However the Foxite opposition in the House of Commons of Great Britain so emasculates the measure with amendments that it is rejected in its new form in Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247385518#Events", "title": "1785 in Ireland", "revid": 1247385518, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Parliament of Ireland passes An Act for Promoting the Trade of Dublin, by rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious, creating the Corporation for Preserving and Improving the Port of Dublin (the \"Ballast Board\"), predecessor of the Commissioners of Irish Lights.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247385533#Events", "title": "1786 in Ireland", "revid": 1247385533, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1801, "year_label": "1801 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the abolition of the Parliament of Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370397745#January–March", "title": "1801", "revid": 1370397745, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}