Lord Deputy of Ireland
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The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland. He deputised prior to 1523 for
John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, monumental effigy
Gerald Fitzgerald 9th Earl of Kildare 2
Hans Holbein the Younger Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
House Butler Armorial Bearings
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,
Lord Deputy of Ireland
…The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland. He deputised prior to 1523 for the Viceroy of Ireland. The plural form is Lords Deputy. The title subsequently became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with…
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