The Act of Union, took effect on 1st January 1801; it meant that Ireland no longer had a Parliament or any independence. Ireland would be governed in the same way in which Wales and Scotland were ...

Historian John Davies on the 1543 'Act of Union' between England and Wales. The act of 1536 lacked precision. A further statute of 1543 filled in the details. It established the court of great ...

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