I am going to start today’s column in an odd place. The Act of Union of 1801. This Act of Union, which in layman’s terms, ended the existing Irish parliament and merged it with a singular United Kingdom & Ireland parliament in Westminster, on the 1st of January 1801, set off a saeculum horribilus on this island. Not that the existing Irish parliament wa…
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