Is there a King of Ireland, King of Aileach, Lord of Inishowen, etc today?
No. This is because kingship and lordship are in essence an ordinary jurisdiction over an underlying territory and these jurisdictions were lost to conquest from the late twelfth to early seventeenth centuries. As is the case with former territorial jurisdictions elsewhere in Europe it is possible that they continue in titular form, as titles asserted in the abstract divorced from ordinary control of an underlying territory, but this is not normal in Ireland. In any event they would lack the grandiose paraphernalia of styles of address, dynastic orders, etc that evolved elsewhere in Europe subsequent to their cessation in Ireland in ordinary form.
