On 13 October 1494, 525 years ago today, Sir Edward Poynings landed at Howth and immediately summoned a parliament to Drogheda.
Poynings' Law or the Statute of Drogheda later titled "An Act that no Parliament be holden in this Land until the Acts be certified into England", was
Poynings' Law or the Statute of Drogheda later titled "An Act that no Parliament be holden in this Land until the Acts be certified into England", was
a 1494 Act of the Parliament of Ireland which provided that the Irish parliament could not meet until its proposed legislation had been approved both by Ireland's Lord Deputy and Privy Council and by England's monarch and Privy Council. It was a major grievance in 18th-century
Ireland, was amended by the Constitution of 1782, rendered moot by the Acts of Union 1800, and repealed by the Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act, 1878.
We Irish have long memories.
We Irish have long memories.
