Peerage of Ireland
The
Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as
Lord or
King of Ireland. Before 1801, Irish Peers had the right to sit in the
Irish House of Lords, but after the Union in
1801, Irish peers, like those of
Scotland, only elected
representative peers â€" twenty-eight in number â€" to the House of Lords (see
List of Irish representative peers). This practice ended with the creation of the
Irish Free State in
1922.
Irish Peerages continued to be created for some time after
1801 as a way of creating peerages which did not grant a seat in the
House of Lords; although the treaty of Union placed restrictions on them: three had to go extinct before one could be granted, at least until there were only a hundred Irish peerages. The last to be granted was one for
Lord Curzon in
1898. In the following table of Irish peers, higher or equal titles in the other peerages are listed. Also, if the peer holds a lower title in the Peerages of England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, and therefore sat by such a peerage in the House of Lords, such a lower title is listed.
Note that in Ireland,
barony may also refer to an obsolete political subdivision of a
county. There is no connection between such a barony and the noble title of baron.
