[4] It was an English regiment with an Irish warrant that started the lodge from which Prince Hall Freemasonry sprang.

The Grand Secretary of the Antients, Laurence Dermott, based his regulations on Spratt's Irish constitutions.

It was the Antients' ritual form that prevailed when the two rival English Grand Lodges joined in 1813.

A dispute over the higher degrees led to a breakaway Grand Lodge of Ulster, operating from 1805 for nine years.

In 1826, the papal condemnation Quo Graviora, although only the latest of a series of anti-masonic measures by the Church, was the first to be rigidly enforced by the Irish clergy.

In 1869 the current, purpose-built headquarters of Irish Freemasonry, Freemasons' Hall on Molesworth Street, opened, housing dramatically decorated Lodge rooms, a library, museum, offices and dining areas.

[11] Between 1732 and 1742, the Grand Lodge of Ireland issued warrants to the following British Army regiments; 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots), 17th (Leicestershire), 18th (Royal Irish), 19th (Green Howards), 20th Lancashire Fusiliers, 27th (Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers), 28th (Gloucestershire), 30th (East Lancashire), 32nd (Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry), 33rd (West Riding (Duke of Wellington’s), 38th (South Staffords) and the 39th (Dorset).

[11] The Catholic Church excluded its members from participation in Freemasonry, rival movements such as the Knights of Saint Columbanus were created and particularly during the 20th century as the Irish Free State was founded, the two groups were competitors.

Some of the most vocal anti-masons in Ireland have typically been supporters of the Catholic Church and have authored works against freemasonry.

This includes Michael de Gargano's (a pseudonym) Irish and English Freemasons and Their Foreign Brothers (1876), Fr.