Upper house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed until 1800
Irish House of Lords
Type
Type
Upper house
History
Established
1297
Disbanded
1 January 1801 (1801-01-01)
Succeeded by
House of Lords of the United Kingdom
Leadership
Lord Chancellor
The Earl of Clare1 (1789–1800)
Structure
Seats
typically 122–147[1]
Length of term
Lifetime
Salary
nil
Elections
Voting system
Ennoblement by the monarch or inheritance of a peerage
Meeting place
Lords Chamber, Parliament House, Dublin
Footnotes
1In 1800See also: Parliament of Great Britain
The House of Lords entrance to the Parliament House (east view). The entrance, which was part of an extension to the original building, was designed by renowned architect James Gandon by 1789.
The Irish House of Lords was the upper house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from medieval times until the end of 1800. It was also the final court of appeal of the Kingdom of Ireland.
It was modelled on the House of Lords of England, with members of the Peerage of Ireland sitting in the Irish Lords, just as members of the Peerage of England did at Westminster. When the Act of Union 1800 abolished the Irish parliament, a subset of Irish peers sat as Irish representative peers in the House of Lords of the merged Parliament of the United Kingdom.[2]
^James, F. G. (23 May 1979). "The Active Irish Peers in the Early Eighteenth Century". Journal of British Studies. 18 (2): 52–69. doi:10.1086/385737. JSTOR 175512.
^E.M. Johnson-Liik History of the Irish parliament in 6 vols. (Belfast, 2002).
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