`  :::Just to add that if Ireland is ``overseas``, then so certainly is France, much of which was English-ruled a long time before Ireland.  And neither Irish or French fiefs and territories were constituted as ``colonies``, rather as conquests/possessions.  For the ``first overseas colony`` I'd think that would have to be Newfoundland, no?  First discovered, though maybe another was chartered as a colony before Newfoundland was.... `