Mahomet, Money and Navan
Ireland remained a separate kingdom under George II, with its own parliament, courts, revenue and established Church of Ireland, but its legislature operated within constraints imposed by Poynings’ Law and by the authority of the British crown and privy council. Political participation was also exceptionally narrow. The Irish House of Commons did not represent the island’s population in any modern sense: Catholics, who formed the great majority, were excluded from parliament, while Presbyterians and other dissenters faced important disabilities. Power rested chiefly with Protestant landowners, officeholders and borough interests.