Who was the King of Ireland in 1679?

Question

And please add some info about what was going on at the time

Answer 1

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. King Charles II dissolved the English Parliament in 1679, and ruled alone until his death on 6 February 1685. House of Commons of 1679 introduced the Exclusion Bill sought to exclude the king's brother and heir presumptive, James, Duke of York from the throne of England because he was Catholic. Fearing that the Exclusion Bill would be passed, and bolstered by some acquittals in the continuing Plot trials, which seemed to him to indicate a more favourable public mood towards Catholicism, Charles dissolved the English Parliament, for a second time that year, in the summer of 1679. Charles's hopes for a more moderate Parliament were not fulfilled, within a few months he had dissolved Parliament yet again, after it sought to pass the Exclusion Bill.

Answer 2

charles the 2nd
king of scotland and ireland
IN seeking to trace the development of a person who lived three hundred
years ago, the historian has a fundamental handicap: the seventeenth
century lacked the interest of the present age in child psychology, and
generally failed to record those incidents which this discipline regards as
important. So it was with the child who was born in St James's Palace
upon 29 May 1630, christened Charles, and later styled Prince of Great
Britain, though generally known by the more traditional title of Prince of
Wales. Contemporary comments upon his boyhood may be divided instead
into three broad categories: those concerned with the external trappings
of an heir to the throne in the age of baroque monarchy; those upon his
physical and mental characteristics; and those preoccupied with his relation
to political affairs.

The first sort commenced with his birth. It was noted by many observers
that a bright star appeared over London at noon upon that day, portending
good fortune. There was less agreement over the significance of a solar
eclipse which followed. 1 More prosaically, the nurses attending the birth
predicted that he would be generous because he appeared with open
hands. 2 Observers of the christening, in the Chapel Royal, remembered
that the whole party wore white satin with crimson embroidery, that six
barons carried the canopy over the baby, that the corporation of London
gave the King a gold cup worth £1,000, and that the absent godmother,
the Queen Mother of France, sent marvellous diamonds. 3

Answer 3

King Charles II of England. Not much went on then, but when his brother got the book 9 years later, his brother tried to start a rebellion in Ireland and was badly defeated by King William at the Boyne, a victory that is still celebrated by the Protestants in Northern Island to the detriment of their Catholic neighbors.

Answer 4

Charlie Two!

'Questioner',

Of course he was King of Ireland whether or not he was Irish!

The Prince of Wales hasn't been Welsh since Edward I was King of England

The Kings of England have often been non-English, usually Danish, French or German!

And there was no "Irish Nation" as you put it! Even if there were, common people don't 'elect' kings, kings tell everyone else what to do, having money and an army to back them up.

The island of Ireland was under the same tyranny of rich landlords as was everybody else in these islands!

Answer 5

There was no King of Ireland at that time. There was a King claiming to be King of Ireland, but he was not Irish, and was not there by the wishes of the Irish Nation.
By the way Hugo, if somebody came into your Home and took it by force, would you call him the head of your Household?

Answer 6

Charles II (Charles Stuart; 29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

According to royalists, Charles II became king when his father Charles I was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, the climax of the English Civil War. The English Parliament did not proclaim Charles II king at this time, however, and England entered the period known to history as the English Interregnum. The Parliament of Scotland, on the other hand, proclaimed Charles II King of Scots on 5 February 1649 in Edinburgh. He was crowned King of Scots at Scone on 1 January 1651. Following his defeat at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, Charles fled to the continent and spent the next nine years in exile in France, the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands.

After the Protectorate collapsed under Richard Cromwell in 1659, General George Monck invited Charles to return and assume the thrones in what became known as the Restoration. Charles II arrived on English soil on 25 May 1660 and entered London on his thirtieth birthday, 29 May 1660. Charles was crowned King of England and Ireland at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661.

Charles's English parliament enacted harsh anti-Puritan laws known as the Clarendon Code, designed to shore up the position of the re-established Church of England. Charles acquiesced to the Clarendon Code even though he himself favoured a policy of religious toleration. The major foreign policy issue of Charles's early reign was the Second Anglo-Dutch War. In 1670, Charles entered into the secret treaty of Dover, an alliance with Louis XIV under the terms of which Louis agreed to aide Charles in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and pay Charles a pension, and Charles promised to convert to Roman Catholicism at an unspecified future date. Charles attempted to introduce religious freedom for Catholics and Protestant dissenters with his 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence, but the English Parliament forced him to withdraw it. In 1679, Titus Oates's revelations of a supposed "Popish Plot" sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother and heir (the future James II) was a Roman Catholic. This crisis saw the birth of the pro-exclusion Whig and anti-exclusion Tory parties. Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were killed or forced into exile. Charles dissolved the English Parliament in 1679, and ruled alone until his death on 6 February 1685. Charles converted to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed.

He was popularly known as the Merrie Monarch, in reference to both the liveliness and hedonism of his court and the general relief at the return to normality after over a decade of rule by Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans. Charles's wife, Catherine of Braganza was barren, but Charles acknowledged at least 12 illegitimate children by various mistresses