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Following the Act of Union, the peerage of Ireland elected 28 of their number to sit in the UK House of Lords - this practice ended in 1922 with the establishment of the Irish Free State. Other Irish peers were able to stand for election to the UK House of Commons.
The 18th century Irish Parliament building on College Green in Dublin is an office of the commercial Bank of Ireland. Visitors can view the impressive Irish House of Lords chamber within the building.
The upper house of the present Irish parliament ( OireachtasThe Oireachtas ( English: Legislature is the 'National Parliament' of the Republic of Ireland. The Oireachtas consists of the President of Ireland and two houses: Dail Eireann and Seanad Eireann (also known as the Senate). However the Dail is by far the i) is called the SeanadSeanad Eireann (English: Senate of Ireland , the Irish Senate is the upper house of the Oireachtas: the parliament of the Republic of Ireland. The Senate is currently located in Leinster House. Composition Seanad Eireann has sixty members: Eleven appointe (Senate). It has 60 members, 11 nominated by the TaoiseachThe Taoiseach (plural: Taoisigh or, more formally, An Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of the Republic of Ireland and the leader of the Irish cabinet1. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dail Eireann (t, 6 elected by graduates of the National University of IrelandThe National University of Ireland NUI is a federal university system of constituent universities previously called constituent colleges and recognised colleges set up under the , as amended by the. The constituent universities are for all essential purpo and the University of Dublin and the remaining 43 elected from five special panels of nominees by an electorate consisting of TDsA TD or Teachta Dala (pronounced 'chock-ta dawla') is a member of Dail Eireann, the lower chamber of the Irish Oireachtas (pronounced 'orr-och-tas') or National Parliament. Teachta Dala translates as Dail Deputy in the English Language. The term was first (MPs), outgoing senators and local councillors.
History of IrelandEarly history What little is known of pre- Christian Ireland comes from a few references in Roman writings, Irish poetry and myth, and archaeology. The earliest inhabitants, people of a mid- Stone Age, or Mesolithic, culture, arrived sometime after 8000 B