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Union of Great Britain and IrelandThe Union of Great Britain and Ireland came into effect on 1 January 1801. In future Ireland would have one hundred MPs in the British house of commons, as well as twenty-eight elected peers and four Protestant bishops in the house of lords. Catholics were still prevented from sitting in parliament, and indeed were excluded from many public offices. Cornwallis, as lord lieutentant, had pressed for Catholic emancipation to be included in the terms of the Union which the two parliaments were asked to agree. However, the British prime minister, William Pitt, was persuaded that this might be unacceptable to the Protestant MPs in Dublin.Ireland's last years as part of the British Empire began with the death of Queen Victoria on 22 January 1901. From A Little History of Ireland by Martin Wallace with illustrations by Ian McCullough. |
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