What is recorded here
Confederate Hall marked the spot where Irish representatives assembled in 1642 to govern during wartime. The building is gone, but the chamber lived in law, argument and memory. Kilkenny still carries that sudden birth of a nation, not as myth but as a room where ordinary people stopped waiting to be told what to do.
Confederation Hall. On this spot stood the Confederation Hall where on the 23 of the year 1642 the Confederate Parliament or general assembly consisting of eleven spiritual peers, fourteen temporal peers and two hundred and twenty six representative commo
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