Did we all know Ireland is overthrowing a king today?
In what is likely to be one of the more peaceful overthrowings of a monarch, an order from 1685 proclaiming James to be King of Ireland is being abolished in the Dáil later today.
King James was the last Catholic King of Ireland - he ruled for three years until he was overthrown by William of Orange in the Glorious Revolution. As well as being King of Ireland and England, he ruled Scotland as James VII. He died in 1701.
