United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign State in Western Europe from 1801 to 1927. The State was the predecessor of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ==History[ Edit] == The Kingdom of Ireland in personal Union since 1541 was by the English kings ruled. The poor, mainly Roman Catholic population of Ireland was ruled by a smallProtestant, Irish-English elite. After the bloody Irish rebellion of 1798, the British Government decided to add Ireland to the United Kingdom, so the people of Ireland to give fairer representation in the Government and to prevent further turmoil. In 1800 the British and the Irish Parliament voted for an Act of Union, which took effect, however, until in 1801.

From the 1880s the Irish tried larger autonomy (Home rule) to obtain within the United Kingdom, but these attempts were frustrated time and again by opposition from theConservative Party. It was not until 1914 was finally adopted a law for Home rule, but processing theorem was postponed until after the first world war. A new rebellion broke out in Ireland In 1916, the Easter rising, and in 1919 decided members of Parliament of the new Irish Sinn Féin party for an independent Irish Parliament and independent Irish Government in Dublin to set up. That same year, broke a three-year Irish War of independence from.

A peace treaty was signed on 2 december 1922 in which the 26 southern Irish counties left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, an autonomous State within the British Empire, with the British King as head of State. The six northern counties remained in the United Kingdom under the name Northern Ireland.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland the name remained in use until 1927, when the name was changed in the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ==Flag[ Edit] == The British flag (the King's Colours) was only used at sea since 1606 and consisted of the red St. George's cross of the flag of England Andreas cross on top of the diagonal of the flag of Scotland. The flag of Wales was not included in the King's Colours or in the later Union Flag, since Wales was annexed by England in 1282.

After the Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 the red diagonal cross of Patricius (Saint Patrick), the Patron Saint of Ireland, to the British flag added. After 1922, when the southern Irish counties remained the flag of the United Kingdom, Empire after 1822 itself remained unchanged.

The Union Flag was a flag that was associated with the British Royal family, and was in fact no national flag. It was only in 1908, it was decided that the flag as the national flag of the United Kingdom would be considered. ==Monarchs[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * George III (1801 – 1820)
 * George IV (1820 – 1830)
 * William IV (1830 – 1837)
 * Victoria (1837 – 1901)
 * Edward VII (1901 – 1910)
 * George V (1910 – 1922) (title used until 1927)