The Lancastrian Tudor, Henry VII succeeded to the English throne in 1485 after the Battle of Bosworth. Henry was firmly committed to England, after nearly a century of civil war. His marriage with Elizabeth of York had the effect of the combination of the Lancastrian and Yorkist factions within the Tudor line to further differences in relation to the line of succession.

However, Ireland was divided into two Yorkist plots around the Pretenders, who claimed a closer dynastic link to as Henry Plantagenet. Henry crushed these uprisings, and after no longer a danger that Ireland now. In 1494 he sent Sir Edward Poynings, around the country to prevent the heel and with Yorkist Pretenders from Ireland as the base.

Poyning summons Parliament, Drogheda in December 1494, a series of acts, the most important was that which was later known as Poynings' Law. Under the conditions of it, the parliament, to Ireland after royal permission was granted and after the King and Council in England and had been informed of the measures it had proposed to adopt.

The interpretation of Poynings' Law varied massively in the following centuries, it's main intention was to prevent a chief governor in Ireland with the European Parliament for their own profits and to the detriment of the king as Fitzgerald, the Earl of Kildare had done in 1487 as he encourages them, the official recognition of Lambert Simnel, a Pretender to the English crown. Poynings' law would subjugate Ireland, until a movement led by Henry Grattan pressed for drastic change and its virtual abolition in 1782.

Russell Shortt is a travel consultant with Exploring Ireland, the leading specialists in customized, private escorted tours, escorted coach tours and independent self-drive tours of Ireland.
Article Source: http://www.exploringireland.net