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The Union with Ireland Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67), [7] an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and; The Act of Union (Ireland) 1800 (40 Geo. 3 c. 38), [8] an Act of the Parliament of Ireland. They were passed on 2 July 1800 and 1 August 1800 respectively, and came into force on 1 January 1801.
The Act granted (separate) Home Rule to two new institutions, the northeasternmost six counties of Ulster and the remaining twenty-six counties, both territories within the United Kingdom, which partitioned Ireland accordingly into two semi-autonomous regions: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, coordinated by a Council of Ireland.
The terms of the union were agreed on 28 March 1800 by both houses of the Irish Parliament. [13] Two Acts with identical aims (but with different wording) were passed in both the British [15] and Irish [16] parliaments, with the British Act of Union becoming law on 2 July 1800, and royal assent given to the Irish Act of Union on 1 August 1800. [13]
1801 in Ireland. 1 language. ... 1 January – legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, ...
The history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy. These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland , whose English ancestors had settled Ireland in the wake of its conquest by England and colonisation in the Plantations of Ireland , and had taken control of most of the land.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the union of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into one sovereign state, established by the Acts of Union in 1801. [4] It continued in this form for over a century.
2 July & 1 August – Acts of Union 1800: the linked Union with Ireland Act 1800, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and Act of Union (Ireland) 1800, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, are passed by the respective legislatures, to unite the Kingdom of Ireland and Kingdom of Great Britain into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and ...
"Daniel O'Connell: The Champion of Liberty" poster published in Pennsylvania, 1847. The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.