Irish House of Lords |Irish House of Lords| Arms of Ireland
|Disbanded||31 December 1800| |Succeeded by||House of Lords of
the United Kingdom| |Lord Chancellor||The Earl of Clare1 |Voting
system||Appointment by monarch or inheritance of seat| |Lords
Chamber, Irish Houses of Parliament, Dublin| Parliament of Great
Britain The Irish House of Lords (Irish: Teach na dTiarnaí) was
the upper house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from
medieval times until 1800. It was abolished along with the Irish
House of Commons by the Act of Union . The House of Lords was
presided over by the Lord Chancellor, who sat on the woolsack, a
large seat stuffed with wool from each of the three lands of
England, Ireland and Scotland. At the state opening of the Irish
parliament Members of Parliament were summoned to the House of
Lords from the House of Commons chamber by Black Rod, a royal
official who would "command the members on behalf of His
Excellency to attend him in the chamber of peers" Sessions were
formally opened by