SummaryThe English crown asserted full control over Ireland in 1541 when the Irish Parliament declared King Henry VIII the King of Ireland after he helped suppress an uprising by the Earl of Kildare. Thousands of Protestant settlers then started arriving from England and Scotland which displaced the local catholics, setting the stage for years of resentment and conflict to come. Some of these include the invasion of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell, the Great Famine, and the 1790s uprising. The Irish Parliament was then abolished in 1801, with Ireland becoming a part of the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Act of Union.
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