The St Patrick's Day celebrations continued at Kingsholm as Ireland A took a well-earned 33-18 victory on English soil.
Clinical use of the ball and some solid defence paved the way for victory for the spirited Irish, who knocked off England A's ambitious style of play.
England started the game at a ferocious pace and Shane Drahm booted a 12th-minute penalty.
They pulled further ahead when a hard-hitting Michael Lipman tackle created a turnover for Stuart Turner and captain Shaun Perry to make progress before Drahm recycled the ball to Paul Sackey who beat Ireland's left wing charge over the line.
Drahm missed the conversion and Ireland fly-half Jeremy Staunton hit back with two penalties, missing a third.
However, Ireland finally managed to break though England's defence with winger Ian Dowling going over in the left corner, only for Staunton to miss the conversion.
Drahm added another penalty to level the scores until in-form Staunton gave Ireland a moral-boosting interval lead in injury time, finding a gap in the England defence and diving through with his conversion making it 18-11.
The second half started just as badly for England as, when a Staunton penalty drifted wide of the post in the blustery conditions, England failed to gather the ball and the quick-thinking Kieran Lewis piled over the line. Staunton struck the conversion to take a comfortable 23-11 lead.
England fought back and a cleanly-taken attacking line-out on Ireland's five metre line set up powerhouse forward Lipman to break loose from a driving maul and muscle his way over the line and score.
Drahm converted to put England within seven points but soon the home side were again on the back foot.
First Staunton added another penalty before full-back Robert Kearney found space on the right wing to go over for the final word.
