Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sir Edward Poynings
Standard Name: Poynings, Sir Edward
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1494: The Irish parliament passed Poynings's Laws,...
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1494
The Irish parliament passed Poynings
's Laws, which decreed that all English statutes should be valid in Ireland as well, making Ireland unmistakably a colonial possession.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.