who was the last king of ireland?

Answer 1

Ireland has never had a King or Quenn it was always united to England but you could say Mary II and William III because after them came Anne of Great Britain and she joined the three countries England,Ireland and Scotland to form the United Kingdom.

Answer 2

King George VI, the last King of Ireland (1936–1949)

Answer 3

The designation King of Ireland has been used during three periods of Irish history.

In the centuries prior to 1169 Ireland was in the process of becoming a national kingdom under a High King of Ireland. In the aftermath of a Cambro-Norman incursion into Ireland in 1169 Henry II and his successors became "Lord of Ireland". The Treaty of Windsor in 1175 recognised the last native king as overlord of all Ireland outside Norman control but further Cambro-Norman incursions weakened his authority and after his abdication the office fell dormant.

After Henry VIII made himself supreme governor of the Church of England, he also requested and got legislation through the Irish Parliament, in 1541 (effective 1542), naming him King of Ireland and head of the Church of Ireland (which today, both in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, remains a member of the Anglican communion but is no longer an established church like the Church of England). The title "King of Ireland" was then used until 1 January 1801, the effective date of the second Act of Union, which merged Ireland and Great Britain to create the United Kingdom.

After creation of the Irish Free State as a dominion of the British Empire in 1922, King George V continued to reign in Northern Ireland as King of the United Kingdom, because six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster had remained within the UK; until 1927 this status sufficed for his exercise of monarchical authority in the Free State as well. In 1927, the old Anglo-Irish title "King of Ireland" was revived to emphasize the Irish Free State's status as an equal with the United Kingdom in the shared monarchy.

In 1949, the part of Ireland not covered by Northern Ireland severed the last link with the monarch when Ireland (Éire) (as the Irish Free State had been renamed in 1937) became the Republic of Ireland, thereby leaving the Commonwealth and laying the title "King of Ireland" to rest

Answer 4

Kieth Wood