Irish Convention (1660) Charles II in January 1661 and he summoned his parliament in Ireland in May 1661. Irish Convention (1660) The Irish Convention sat 7 February, 2 March and 27 May 1660, and again January 1661. It sought to restore the monarchy, episcopacy and also the right for the King's Irish Parliament to tax and legislate for itself, rejecting claims of legislative supremacy by the King's English Parliament. Sir Charles Coote was a central figure in the Convention. In May 1660 the Convention asked the King of Ireland to "call a parliament consisting of Protestant peers and commons. It was also requested
Monarch butterfly migration theory denies the existence of the mass migration, but instead explains the movements of monarchs in the fall to weather conditions: There is debate between researchers and citizen scientists who study the migration regarding the possible local extinction of the Monarch. The species is distributed worldwide and is not endangered. Still, there is concern that the migration of the eastern North American population may be at risk. Media reports of the monarch's forthcoming extinction have been criticized by scientists. "Monarchs are not in danger of extinction," states Lincoln Brower, a leading monarch conservation researcher. Monitoring and conservation organizations can be