Athenry (Parliament of Ireland constituency) explained

Athenry
Type:	borough
Borough:	Athenry
County:	County Galway
Region:	Ireland
Parliament:	ihc
Abolished:	1801
Seats:	2
Next:	Disfranchised

Athenry was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.

History

Athenry was represented as early as 1378.^[1]

In the first Parliament of Elizabeth, Athenry was represented by Thomas Cusack, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Andrew Browne. In Elizabeth's second Parliament, one of its representatives was John Hooker, an Englishman. Hooker wrote the Irish additions to the 1587 update of Holinshed's Chronicles, in which he describes his own participation in a debate on a bill for the impost of wines.^[2]

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Athenry was represented with two members.

Members of Parliament

• 1559 Sir Thomas Cusack and Andrew Browne
• 1569 John Hooker and another
• 1585 William Browne and Nicholas Lynch^[3]
• 1613–1615 Stephen Browne and Ludovic Bodkin^[4]
• 1634–1635 David Burke and Richard Martyn^[4]
• 1639–1649 Geoffrey Browne and John Blake alias Caddell^[5]
• 1661 Henry Whaley and Sir Henry Waddington^[5]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament
1692		Edward Pearce			Richard Whaley	<	-- party -->
1695
1721		Robert Blakeney	<				-- party -->
1725					Arthur Ormsby
1727					John Blakeney	<	-- party -->
1733		Thomas Bolton
1741		James Daly	<				-- party -->
1747
1763					John Blakeney	<	-- party -->
1768
1776
1781
1783		Theophilus Blakeney	<				-- party -->
1790
1800
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

Bibliography

• Book: O'Hart, John . The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland . Heritage Books . II . 978-0-7884-1927-0 . 2007 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Commissioners on Municipal Corporations in Ireland. Appendix to the First Report, Part I . https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUcxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA287. 1835. 287 §2 . y. Athenry.

   Web site: Close Roll, 1 Richard II, No.81 . 22 January 1378 . CIRCLE. Trinity College Dublin. 24 May 2017.

2. Book: Patterson, Annabel. Reading Holinshed's Chronicles. 1994. University of Chicago Press. 9780226649122. 29–30.

   Book: THE SVPPLIE OF THE Irish Chronicles extended to this present yeare of our Lord 1586, and the 28 of the reigne of queene Elisabeth . 2008–2013 . 1587 . Holinshed's Chronicles . . Vol.3 p.111. 24 May 2017.

3. A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641. Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History. 1998. thesis. en. Brid. McGrath. 2262/77206 .
4. Web site: A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641. Brid. McGrath. 24 October 1998. 2262/77206 . www.tara.tcd.ie.
5. Book: Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. 618.