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English Ministers, Irish Politicians and the Making of a Parliamentary Settlement in Ireland, 1692-5
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McGrath,_C_I,_'English_Ministers,_Irish_Politicians_and_the_Making_of_a_Parliamentary_Settlement_in_Ireland,_1692-5',_English_Historical_Review,_119,_2004,_pp_585-613.pdf | 198.64 KB |
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01 June 2004
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Abstract
In the first post-Glorious Revolution Parliament in Ireland in 1692, a constitutional crisis erupted over the House of Commons’ claim to have the ‘sole and undoubted right’ to initiate financial supply legislation in Ireland, and their rejection of the majority of the government’s legislative programme, including the most substantial provisions for financial supply. Not only did the ‘sole right’ claim result in the loss of desperately needed income for the government, it also represented an attack upon the existing constitutional framework in Ireland, in particular Poynings’ Law and the Crown’s prerogative in initiating legislation. The hasty prorogation of Parliament following these events led to political impasse in Ireland at the end of 1692. This article details the endeavours that were made to break that impasse, and examines the roles taken by leading English ministers, in particular those associated with the Whig party, and by a new generation of Irish politicians, many of whom were also whiggish in inclination, in the negotiation of a compromise settlement in 1694–5. The compromise solution eventually agreed upon in early 1695 resulted later in that year in the summoning of a new Irish Parliament, in which substantial necessary financial supplies were voted for the government. In the longer term, the 1695 compromise came to form the basis for a new constitutional framework for Irish executive-legislature relations that facilitated the advent of regular parliamentary sessions on a biennial basis in Ireland in the eighteenth century.
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Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal
The English Historical Review
Volume
119
Issue
482
Start Page
585
End Page
613
Copyright (Published Version)
2004 Oxford University Press
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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