No, it’ll be fine.

You need an earth wire when you’ve got metal casings on appliances; the earth wire provides a preferred path to ground for a fault which results in the casing becoming live (ie, a preferred path to that path being ‘you’). On appliances without exposed metalwork, an earth wire isn’t necessary as there’s no risk of shock from earth leakage.

ObDisclaimer, I Am Not An Electrician. I accept no responsibility for your death or the accidental loss of your street.

^ but as you’ll see with that adaptor – the ‘earth’ pin is plastic and is doing nothing other than opening the socket for the other two pins. So there’ll only be a small explosion, most of the street will be unscathed, theres only that woman with the cats and the guy who everyone reckons is an internet stalker within the blast zone so don’t worry.

if you buy a new table lamp from B&Q you’ll probably find that only the live & neutral are wired anyway.

from recent experience (been there 4 times since March, going again tomorrow am) Ireland has the same 13A square pin plugs as UK so if it was a 2 pin plug, it was probably a shaver type plug and a shaver adaptor plug would have been fine.

but now you’ve cut it off, you should be able to simply fit a standard UK plug. bRown – Right, bLue – Left*.

*disclaimer for numpties.
This is with the plug viewed from above with the cable going in at the bottom. If you’ve got it rotated so that the cable is not going in at the bottom, rotate it until it is, then the Right/Left rule applies. Not that it really matters for a table lamp, not exactly directional is it?

Also consider the potential overload of a device produced to work on 110 volts whereas we use 240 volts.

Are those not plugs for lighting circuits, rather than being Euro plugs?

Yes, but the OP’s lamp may have been one of these, though can’t be sure without comparison.

You need to press the switch and make three further tests.

1) did the light come on?

2) did all the other lights in the house stay on?

3) did you die?

If the answer to any of these tests is “no”, then it’s not ok.

HTH.

Concerned about the comments regarding ‘metal needs earth’comments 😥

trail_rat – I’ve done that a few times. I assumed it was dodgy but why?

Did the sparks not give it away ….

Ne of our lads did it with a dewalt charger , turned out to be 110v . Bang and smoke….and the other lad in the office was going bananas