List of parliaments of Ireland explained

This is a list of parliaments of Ireland to 1801.

For subsequent parliaments, see the list of parliaments of the United Kingdom. For post-1918 parliaments, see elections in Ireland. Parliaments before 1264 are not currently listed.

Monarch SequenceOpened Dismissed Commons Speaker (date[1]) Sessions General Councils Councils Locations (no. sessions) Notes
118 June 1264c.29 September 1269None2
129 September 12769 April 1307191Dublin (13); Kildare (1); Kilkenny (4)"Wogan's Parliament" of 1297 was the first with representatives elected by counties.
Edward II19 February 13108 July 132614Dublin (6), Kildare (1), Kilmainham (1), Kilkenny (5).
Edward III110 May 13278 January 13772989Dublin (20), Ballydoyle/Cashel (1), Kilkenny (11). The Statutes of Kilkenny were passed by the 1366 session.
Richard II114 January 1378Summer 139613511Dublin (4), Trim (1), Kilkenny (2), Castledermot (4).
Henry IV1Spring 14014 February 14121325Dublin (7), New Ross (1), Kilkenny (2) Waterford (2).
114259 February 145932171Dublin (25), Trim (1), Naas (2), Drogheda (5), Kilkenny (1).
Henry VI27 February 146021 July 1460Drogheda (1), DublinThe parliament was assembled by Richard of York and declared that "the land of Ireland is, and at all times has been, corporate of itself".[2] [3] The 1495 statute 10 Hen. 7. c. 23 (I) annulled this parliament.[4]
112 June 1461after 7 February 148361Dublin (31), Bray (1), Trim (2), Naas (5), Limerick (1), Drogheda (15), Connell, County Kildare (1), Wexford (1), Waterford (1)In 1478, Garret Mór, Earl of Kildare refused to yield the Lord Deputyship to Lord Grey. A Parliament summoned by Grey at Trim on 6 November 1478 annulled one summoned by Kildare at Naas in May.[5]
119 March 1484After 148562Dublin (3), Naas.
114 July 1486after July 15092011Dublin (9), Castledermot (2), Trim (2), Drogheda (4).Poynings' Parliament (1494–5) passed Poynings' Law (10 Hen.7 c.4)
"Edward VI" (Lambert Simnel)May/June 1487June/October 148711DublinParliament summoned by Lord Deputy Kildare considered void; the 1495 statute 10 Hen. 7. c. 14 (I) may have annulled it.[6]
125 February 15162 October 15163Dublin (3)
24 June 152121 March 15227Dublin (7)
315 September 153131 October 15312Dublin (1), Drogheda (1)
419 May 1533after 2 October 15333Dublin (3)
51 May 153620 December 1537At least 9Dublin (at least 6) Kilkenny (1), Cashel (1), Limerick (1)
613 June 154119 November 1543Sir Thomas Cusack (c. 13 June 1541)8Dublin (6), Trim (1), Limerick (1)Passed the Crown of Ireland Act 1542
Mary I11 June 15571 March 1558James Stanihurst3Dublin (1), Limerick (1), Drogheda (1)
Elizabeth I112 January 15601 February 1560James Stanihurst1Dublin
Elizabeth I217 January 156925 April 1571James Stanihurst10Dublin (9), Drogheda (1)
Elizabeth I326 April 158514 May 1586ListNicholas Walsh7
James I118 May 161324 October 1615Sir John Davies3First Irish parliament with a Protestant majority, achieved largely (following the Ulster plantation) by the creation of new boroughs by the king, many of which were little more than villages or empty plots of land.[7]
Charles I114 July 163418 April 1635Sir Nathaniel Catelyn4
Charles I216 March 163930 January 1649[8] ListSir Maurice Eustace6
Interregnum30 Irish MPs sat at Westminster in the Protectorate Parliament (1653–59)
Charles II18 May 16617 August 1666ListSir Audley Mervyn4
17 May 168918 July 1689ListSir Richard Nagle1Patriot Parliament convened by Jacobites after the Revolution of 1688. The Irish act 7 Will. III, c. 3 (1695) annulled all actions of this "pretended Parliament" and ordered its records burnt.[9] [10]
William III and Mary II15 October 169226 June 1693ListSir Richard Levinge1
William III227 August 169514 June 1699ListRobert Rochfort2
Anne1 21 September 1703 6 May 1713 List6
John Forster (19 May 1710)
Anne2 25 November 1713 1 August 1714 ListAlan Brodrick 1 Dissolved by the death of the Queen
George I1 12 November 1715 11 June 1727 List6 Dissolved by the death of the King
128 November 1727 25 October 1760 ListWilliam Conolly17 Dissolved by the death of the King
Sir Ralph Gore (13 October 1729)
Henry Boyle (4 October 1733)
John Ponsonby (26 April 1756)
122 October 1761 28 May 1768 ListJohn Ponsonby4 The Octennial Act passed in 1768 limited parliaments to a term of 8 years at most
George III2 17 October 1769 5 April 1776 ListJohn Ponsonby5
Edmund Sexton Pery (7 March 1771)
George III3 18 June 1776 25 July 1783 ListEdmund Sexton Pery4 The Constitution of 1782 instigated Grattan's Parliament
George III4 14 October 1783 8 April 1790 ListEdmund Sexton Pery 7
John Foster (5 September 1785)
George III5 2 July 1790 11 July 1797 ListJohn Foster8
George III69 January 1798 31 December 1800 ListJohn Foster3 Dissolved by the Acts of Union 1800

The kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain joined on 1 January 1801. For subsequent parliaments see the list of parliaments of the United Kingdom.

References

Notes and References

  1. Where no date is given, the speaker took the chair at the opening of Parliament
  2. Lydon. James F.. Summer 1995. 'Ireland Corporate of itself' the Parliament of 1460. History Ireland. 3. 2. 27724246.
  3. Book: Curtis. Edmund. McDowell. Robert Brendan. Irish historical documents, 1172-1922. 1968. Barnes & Noble. 73.
  4. Book: Ireland. The Statutes at Large: From the third year of Edward the Second, A.D. 1310, to the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth years of James the First, A.D. 1612, inclusive . 1 . https://books.google.com/books?id=HXhaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA57. 1765. B. Grierson. 57. Chap. XXIII An Act repealing a Parliament holden at Drogheda, before Robert Prestone, lord of Gormanstowne. Rot. Parl. cap. 40.
  5. Statute 8 Edw. 4 Sess. 3 c. 6 (I); Edwards . R. Dudley . Moody . T. W. . Otway-Ruthven . Jocelyn . Quinn . David B. . Richardson . H. G. . Parliaments and Great Councils in Ireland, 1461-1586 . Irish Historical Studies . 1942 . 3 . 9 . 60–77: 67 . 30005995 . 0021-1214.
  6. Parliaments and Great Councils, 1483-99: Addenda et Corrigenda . S. G. . Ellis . Analecta Hibernica . 29 . 1980 . 96, 98–111 : 101–102 . Irish Manuscripts Commission . 25511959.
  7. Book: Clarke. Aidan. A New History of Ireland, Volume III, Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1691, edited by T. W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne. 1976. Oxford : Clarendon Press. 213.
  8. Dissolved by the King's death
  9. Book: Statutes Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland: 1665-1712. 1794. George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 241–3.
  10. Web site: The Irish Parliament of James II. Davis. Thomas Osborne. CELT. University College Cork. 54. 18 May 2017.