Ireland: The People's History of Ireland, Volume 1 (of 2)

part in framing the penal code, and that many members of the Irish House

of Lords, including Protestant bishops, indignantly protested against the formal violation of the Articles of Limerick, contained in the act of the “Irish” Parliament, passed in 1695.

Lord Sydney, William’s Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, summoned the first Irish Parliament of his master’s reign, in 1692, and...