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unusual facts about Act of Union


Roxboro, Limerick

Due to the extensive civil unrest of the period following the Act of Union in 1801 and the Napoleonic Wars, many police barracks were constructed in the region and one was built at Power's Cross in Roxborough in the 1830s.


Duke of Normandy

British claims to the throne of France and other French claims were not formally abandoned until 1801, when George III and Parliament, in the Act of Union, joined the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland and used the opportunity to drop the obsolete claim on France.

Great Coalition

The previous collapse after only three months of a coalition government formed by George-Étienne Cartier and Conservative John A. Macdonald (the sixth government in six years) had demonstrated that continued governance of Canada East and Canada West under the 1840 Act of Union had become untenable.


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Bishop’s boroughs

These Boroughs included Clogher in Tyrone and Old Leighlin in Carlow amongst others, they were disenfranchised following the Act of Union in 1801.

Cahersiveen

Daniel O'Connell, 19th-century Irish politician and campaigner for Catholic Emancipation and Repeal of the 1801 Act of Union