Irish House of Lords

Irish House of Lords
Irish House of Lords
Type
Type	Upper house
History
Established	1297
Disbanded	1 January 1801
Succeeded by	House of Lords of the United Kingdom
Leadership
Lord Chancellor	The Earl of Clare1 (1789–1800)
Structure
Seats	typically 122–147
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 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).