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Wikipedia: The Irish Houses of Parliament (Irish: Tithe na Parlaiminte, also known as the Irish Parliament House, today called the Bank of Ireland, College Green due to its use as by the bank, was the world's first purpose-built two-chamber parliament house. It served as the seat of both chambers of the Irish parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland for most of the eighteenth century until that parliament was abolished by the Act of Union of 1800, when the island became part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In the seventeenth century, parliament settled at Chichester House, a town house in Hoggen Green formerly owned by Sir George Carew, Lord President of Munster and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, which had been built on the site of a nunnery disbanded by King Henry VIII at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries.
![[The WoolsackThe Lord Chancellor of Ireland sat here when chairing the House of Lords, now back in location in the...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Woolsack_IHOL_s.jpg "The WoolsackThe Lord Chancellor of Ireland sat here when chairing the House of Lords, now back in location in the...")
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![[The 'screen wall' that joins the original entrance to Gandon's extension]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Irish_Parliament_old_BOI_screenwall_s.jpg "The 'screen wall' that joins the original entrance to Gandon's extension")
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![[William III's victory over James II/VIIThe Battle of the Boyne tapestry that hangs in the Lords chamber]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Battle_of_Boyne_tapestry_Irish_HOL_s.jpg "William III's victory over James II/VIIThe Battle of the Boyne tapestry that hangs in the Lords chamber")
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![[The Irish House of Lords chamber]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bofihofl_s.jpg "The Irish House of Lords chamber")
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![[The Irish House of Lords entrance to the Parliament House]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Hoflentrance_s.jpg "The Irish House of Lords entrance to the Parliament House")
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![[Elevation of the Parliament House Dublin by Peter Mazell based on the drawing by Rowland Omer 1767]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Irish_Parliament_s.jpg "Elevation of the Parliament House Dublin by Peter Mazell based on the drawing by Rowland Omer 1767")
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![[A ceiling in the eighteenth century Powerscourt House, the townhouse of a Viscount Powerscourt]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Dub_PowerscourtTownhouseCentre_ceiling_s.jpg "A ceiling in the eighteenth century Powerscourt House, the townhouse of a Viscount Powerscourt")
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![[A picture of Irish Houses of Parliament]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Hofcent1_crop_s.jpg "A picture of Irish Houses of Parliament")
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![[The chandelier in the House of Lords.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Hoflchand1_2_s.jpg "The chandelier in the House of Lords.")
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