Commonwealth of Ireland

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The Commonwealth of Ireland was the republican government that ruled Ireland under English parliamentary control following the Cromwellian conquest in the mid-17th century.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf client state
former republic
historical state
capital Dublin
conflict Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
continent Europe
country Ireland
currency pound sterling
linked to: Pound sterling
deFactoRuler Henry Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
endTime 1660
establishedBy Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
English Parliament
Oliver Cromwell
event Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652
Act of Satisfaction 1653
Cromwellian land confiscations in Ireland
flag flag of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
followedBy Kingdom of Ireland
Restoration Ireland
governmentType military dictatorship
republic
headOfState Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
historicalPeriod English Protectorate
Interregnum
legalBasis Acts of the English Parliament
legislature English Parliament
Parliament of Ireland
location island of Ireland
notableOfficeHolder Charles Fleetwood
Henry Ireton
officeHeldBy Lord Deputy of Ireland
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
officialLanguage English
opposedReligion Roman Catholicism
partOf Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
policy dispossession of Catholic landowners
plantation of Irish lands by English and Scottish Protestants
precededBy Kingdom of Ireland
religion Anglicanism
Presbyterianism
linked to: Presbyterian

Protestantism
sovereign Commonwealth of England
startTime 1649
1652
status under English parliamentary control
underControlOf Council of State of the Commonwealth of England
English Parliament

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Elizabeth Bourchier associatedWithPoliticalEntity Commonwealth of Ireland
Secretary for Foreign Tongues appliesToJurisdiction Ireland (under Commonwealth rule)
linked to: Commonwealth of Ireland
Second Protectorate Parliament appliesToJurisdiction Ireland
linked to: Commonwealth of Ireland
Protectoral Council appliesToJurisdiction Commonwealth of Ireland
Household of Oliver Cromwell appliesToJurisdiction Commonwealth of Ireland