ABSTRACT
The Irish Parliament held its last session in College Green on August 2, 1800. On January 28, 1801, one hundred Irishmen took seats in the 658-member British House of Commons, and thirty-two Irish peers, including four Protestant bishops, entered the 360-member House of Lords. Despite the existence of a UK Parliament at Westminster, the merger of the Churches of Ireland and England, and the 1815 amalgamation of the two treasuries, Ireland was not as thoroughly integrated into the United Kingdom as were the other two portions of the Celtic fringe, Scotland and Wales. The continuation of such positions as lord lieutenant, chief secretary, lord chancellor, and chancellor of the exchequer, over twenty government agencies supervising a multitude of civil servants, a military department, and separate courts and prison systems were remnants of nationhood.
