In 1690, 

Pope Clement XI endorsed the then protestant William III of England's

campaign to defeat the remaining Jacobite forces on the island.[5]
Until 1801, Ireland continued to exist as a Kingdom in its own right, with its own
Parliament. The government of Ireland, however, remained exclusively Protestant,
even after Grattan's constitution came into effect in the 1780s. Most of the country's
population remained Catholic, but its Protestant minority remained socially,
politically, and economically dominant; and even many Protestants were excluded
from power as not being members of the established Church of Ireland. The Penal
Laws preserving the position of the Protestant Ascendancy began to be dismantled
in the 1780s and 1790s. However, fear of revolutionary violence in the wake of
the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars and subsequent
republican Irish Rebellion of 1798 led the British government to seek the union of
Ireland with Great Britain; this resulted in the formation of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland.

The 20th century[edit]

As a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty that ended the Irish War of Independence,
Ireland left the United Kingdom in 1922 and became the Irish Free State, a mostly
self-governing Dominion that still retained the British monarch as its head of state.
As anticipated, Northern Ireland, made up of six north-eastern counties, immediately
seceded from the Free State and remained in the United Kingdom, with its own
parliament and devolved system of government. Despite these fundamental
changes, the 16th-century Act remained unamended on the statute books.
From a British perspective, the Irish Free State became legislatively independent
with the passage in the British parliament of the Statute of Westminster 1931.
However, the Irish Free State considered itself legislatively independent before its
passage and did not recognise its legal situation as having changed. The country
thereafter shared the person of its monarch with the United Kingdom and the
other Dominions of the then-called British Commonwealth.
The Irish Free State adopted a new constitution in 1937 with a president, while
the Irish monarchy which had been retained for external relations was abolished in
Irish law by The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 in 1949. Though no longer effective,
the Tudor Act remained on the Republic's statute books until formally repealed in
1962.[6]

See also[edit]
 Protestant Ascendancy
 Style of the British Sovereign
 High treason in the United Kingdom
 Treason Act

References[edit]
 Blackstone, Sir William and Stewart, James (1839). The Rights of Persons, According to
the Text of Blackstone: Incorporating the Alterations Down to the Present Time. p. 92.
 1. ^ Short title as conferred in Northern Ireland by the Short Titles Act (Northern Ireland) 1951; the
Act lacks a short title in the Republic of Ireland.
2. ^ Grattan, Henry (1822). "Regency: Feb. 11, 1789".  The Speeches of the Right Honourable
Henry Grattan in the Irish, and in the Imperial Parliament. Vol.  II. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme
and Brown. p. 114. Retrieved  22 February  2016. The act of Henry VIII., commonly called the act
of annexation, proves and ascertains what the member's arguments would deny, the existence,
properties, and prerogatives of the Irish crown.; A Review of Mr. Grattan's Answer to the Earl of
Clare's Speech  (PDF). Vol. Part the first. Dublin: J. Milliken. 1800. p. 6. What by a bold flight of
imperialism we now denominate the Act of Annexation, (33d Hen. VIII. c. 1.) was in truth no more
than an alteration in the Royal style.
3. ^ Moody, T. W.; et  al., eds. (1989).  A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History.
Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
4. ^ "Crown of Ireland Act 1542". Heraldica. 25 July 2003. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
5. ^ "Pope supported the Protestant King William".  independent. Retrieved  16 April 2023.
6. ^ The Statute Law Revision (Pre-Union Irish Statutes) Act 1962, section
1 and Schedule Archived 11 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine.

External links[edit]
 Text of the Crown of Ireland Act (I) 1542 (c. 1) as in force today (including any
amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

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