Privy Council of Ireland
His or Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, commonly called the Privy Council of Ireland, Irish Privy Council, or in earlier centuries the Irish Council, was the institution within the
Role
As in England, the medieval unitary
The privy council played a leading role in directing the
The Irish council developed a judicial role later than the Privy Council of England, with the Court of Castle Chamber sitting in Dublin Castle from 1571 to 1641.[1][14] In the 19th century, petitions to the Privy Council against decisions of various administrative bodies were referred to committees of councillors with legal experience. Most were ad hoc, but there were statutory "judicial committees" (comprising current or former senior judges) relating to the Encumbered Estates' Court (1849–58) and Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.[15]
Privy Councillors had a right of
Although the
Although the
Most of the council's records were lost in either a 1711 fire or the 1922
Members
Technically there were no
The role of Secretary of the Council and
Ceremonial
For most of its existence the council met in the Council Chamber in Dublin Castle, where new councillors took their oath of office and from which Orders in Council were issued. A room over the chapel built by Philip Sidney in 1567 had "a very long table, furnished with stools at both sides and ends [where] sometimes sit in council about 60 or 64 privy councillors".[43] Charles I sent the English Privy Council's rules of order to Ireland with some extra orders including "No man shall speak at the Council Board covered, save only the Deputy."[4] In 1655 during the Protectorate the council moved to the old Custom House on Essex Quay.[29] After a 1711 fire destroyed its chamber and archives, it returned to Dublin Castle to a new Council Chamber above the archway linking the Upper and Lower Yards.[29][44] By 1907 only members living near Dublin would receive a summons to ordinary meetings of the council.[45]
Members of the Privy Council of Ireland were entitled to the
Supersession
It was in the Council Chamber on 16 January 1922 that Viscount FitzAlan formally handed over control of the Dublin Castle administration to the
Although never formally abolished, the Privy Council of Ireland ceased to have any functions and did not meet again. The Chief Secretary's chair was taken from the Council Chamber in Dublin Castle to serve as the chair of the Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann.[53] In 1930, the meaning of appeal to "His Majesty in Council" (in the Free State Constitution and Anglo-Irish Treaty) was disputed in a case at the Judicial Committee of the UK Privy Council in London (JCPC). One party claimed that "His Majesty in Council" ought to mean the Privy Council of Ireland, but the JCPC ruled that it meant the JCPC itself.[54] In 1931 The Irish Times reported a rumour that the Free State government was seeking to transfer the JCPC's appellate jurisdiction to a revived Privy Council of Ireland.[55] The Parliamentary Gazette, an unofficial reference work, continued to publish lists of members of the "Privy Council in Ireland" as late as 1934.[56] Official sources after 1922 occasionally retained the style "Rt Hon" for members of the dormant Irish Privy Council; for example in Oireachtas proceedings of Andrew Jameson,[57] Bryan Mahon,[58] and James Macmahon,[59] and in The London Gazette of Henry Givens Burgess.[60] Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan was the last surviving Irish Privy Councillor; appointed on 16 September 1921, he died on 28 November 1982.
The 1908 act establishing the National University of Ireland provided it with a petitions review committee to be composed of members of the "Privy Council in Ireland".[61] In 1973 the Seanad expressed concern that because "the Privy Council in Ireland is non-existent" there was no way to process petitions.[62]
See also
- Council of State (Ireland)
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Irish Free State
- List of Northern Ireland members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- List of Privy Counsellors of Ireland
- Privy Council (Northern Ireland)
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Further reading
- Phillips, Arthur (1910). "Index : Ireland : Privy Council". A bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485–1714; Vol II. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Vol. VI. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 592–598.
External links
- Rayment, Leigh (23 January 2010). "Privy Councillors -- Ireland". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
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