Kingdom of Ireland
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The Kingdom of Ireland was a dependency of England from 1542 to 1707, and then of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800. It was ruled by the monarchs of England and then of Great Britain in personal union,
English soldiers return from a battle with cattle, severed Irish heads, and Irish captives, from The Image of Irelande, 1581
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.
Crowned harp on a farthing coin of 1744
Lordship of Ireland
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The Lordship of Ireland, also referred to as the English lordship in Ireland or Anglo-Norman Ireland, was the part of Ireland ruled by the King of England and controlled by loyal Anglo-Norman lords fr
Kingdom of Ireland
…history it was de facto a dependency. This status was enshrined in the Declaratory Act 1719. The territory of the kingdom comprised that of the former Lordship of Ireland, founded in 1177 by King Henry II of England after the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. By the 16th century, the Pale, the area of effective English…
The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife (1854), by Daniel Maclise
"Henry at Waterford", from A Chronicle of England (1864) by James Doyle
A 17th-century painting of King John of England, Lord of Ireland