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Lord Deputy of Ireland

Head of the Irish executive under English rule

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland. He deputised prior to 1523 for the Viceroy of Ireland. The plural form is Lords Deputy.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lord Deputy of Ireland” is head of the Irish executive under English rule. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lord, Deputy and Ireland, not as a finished interpretation.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1523.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lord Deputy of Ireland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.