Postmasters General of Ireland

The Postmasters General of Ireland, held by two people simultaneously, was a new appointment set up as part of the establishment of the Irish Post Office independent from that of Great Britain, by the Post Office Act 1783 (23 & 24 Geo. 3. c. 17 (I)), in May 1784. The post lasted nearly fifty years. The act was not repealed upon the Act of Union 1800 but in 1831.

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