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.
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, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
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