The Connolly Room is so called because it was here that the wounded James Connolly spent his last night before being executed for his part in the Easter Rising.
Colony room is named after James Connolly who spent his last night there.
That changed in 1786 when the Sultan of Kedah gave Francis Light rights to the island of Penang and a strip of mainland coast in order to counter the demands of the Thais and Burmese.