Poyning's Law
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Poyning's Law refers to Sir Edward Poyning's declaration to the Irish Parliament to Drogheda in 1494. The Irish parliament was there placed under the authority of the English Parliament. Ireland was also required to run all of its laws past the English parliament to be approved.
Groups seeking self government for Ireland such as the Confederate Catholics in the 1640s and Grattan's Patriot Party in the late eighteenth century consistently sought a repeal of Poynings Law. However, the Act remained in place until the so-called Constitution of 1782 gave the Irish parliament legislative independence.
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