The famous pamphlet of physician and philosophsopher William Molyneux, born and dead in Dublin (1656-1698), The Case of Ireland being bound by acts of Parliament to England Stated (1698) or Speech on Ireland’s reliance on the laws of the Parliament of England, is, through his vision of the historical context, a valuable contribution to knowledge of the time and to the relationship between Ireland and England. Referring to the most worrying cases which undermine Ireland’s autonomy, the author contests the right of the Parliament of England to legislate for Ireland on the ground that Ireland is a separate Kingdom, that it has its own Parliament and is not represented in the Parliament of England. He wants to restore the rights of the Irish Parliament, citing the agreements between Irish leaders and Henri II and referring to Anthony Dopping’s publication of Modus tenendi parliamenta in Hibernia in 1692. The theory that Ireland was subject to the King of England and not the Parliament was not easy to reconcile with the new situation created by the 1688-1689 Revolution which established the Parliament, not the King, as the supreme authority in England. The book made sense and was seen as the first demand for Irish independence.