Editing Monarchy of Ireland (section)

===Union with Great Britain, 1707–1922===
{{See also|List of British monarchs}}
The [[Acts of Union 1707]] merged the kingdoms of England and Scotland into the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]], under the sovereignty of the [[British Crown]]. The effect was to create a personal union between the Crown of Ireland and the British Crown, instead of the English Crown. Later, from 1 January 1801, an additional merger took place between the two Kingdoms. By the terms of the [[Acts of Union 1800]], the [[Kingdom of Ireland]] merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain, thus creating the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]. Following the separation of most of Ireland from that kingdom in 1922, the remaining constituent parts were renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927, five years after the establishment of the [[Irish Free State]].
[[Image:Italian School, Roman, 18th century - Henry Benedict Stuart (1725-1807), Cardinal York - RCIN 401252 - Royal Collection.jpg|right|thumb|Jacobite pretender, [[Henry Benedict Stuart]]. The [[French Directory]] suggested to United Irishmen making him King of the Irish in 1798 but were rebuffed. Many Irishmen were Jacobites in the early 18th century.]]
During the early 18th century, a significant number of Irishmen who had fled Ireland in the aftermath of the [[Treaty of Limerick]] continued to remain loyal to the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] pretenders as Kings of Ireland (particularly the [[Flight of the Wild Geese|Wild Geese]] military diaspora in [[Irish Brigade (France)|France's Irish Brigade]]), contrary to the [[House of Hanover]]. However, Ireland was host to a [[Irish Army (1661–1801)|large military establishment]] and thus, unlike Scotland, was not the ground for legitimist-royalist risings in the 18th century, turning instead, mostly to [[republicanism]] as dissention with the ascent of the [[United Irishmen]]. However, despite their general anti-clericalism and republicanism, the [[French Directory]] did suggest to the United Irishmen in 1798 restoring the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] Pretender, [[Henry Benedict Stuart]], as Henry IX, King of the Irish.{{sfn|Pittock|2006|p=210}}{{sfn|Aston|2002|p=222}} This was on account of General [[Jean Joseph Amable Humbert]] landing a force in [[County Mayo]] for the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798]] and realising the local population were devoutly Catholic (a significant number of Irish priests supported the Rising and had met with Humbert, although Humbert's Army had been veterans of the anti-clerical campaign in Italy).{{sfn|Aston|2002|p=222}} The French Directory hoped this option would allow the creation of a stable French client state in Ireland, however, [[Wolfe Tone]], the Protestant republican leader, scoffed at the suggestion and it was quashed.{{sfn|Aston|2002|p=222}}