See main article: Patriot Parliament. The Patriot Parliament is the name given to the Irish Parliament called by James II during the 1689 to 1691 war in Ireland. The first since 1666, it held only one session, from 7 May 1689 to 20 July 1689.
The House of Commons was 70 members short as there were no elections in Counties Fermanagh and Donegal, while its members were overwhelmingly Old English and Catholic. Sir Richard Nagle was elected Speaker while the Lords was led by Baron Fitton; it contained five Protestant peers and four Church of Ireland bishops, including Anthony Dopping, Bishop of Meath, who acted as leader of the opposition.
Fitton spent much of his adult life in prison for criminal libel; allegedly selected by James because he was a Protestant, he promptly converted to Catholicism. It included five Protestant peers, Granard, Longford, Barrymore, Howth and Rosse, who was Tyrconnell's son-in-law, plus four Church of Ireland bishops; Anthony Dopping, Bishop of Meath, acted as leader of the opposition.
The members of the House of Lords are as follows:[1]
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
(Assumed the title in place of his elder brother Richard, a Capuchin friar.) | ||
| [2] | ||
| [3] | (This title had probably been extinct since about 1641.) | |
| [4] | (This title had been forfeit since 1645.) | |
Earl of Abercorn in the peerage of Scotland | ||
Lord Chancellor | ||
Lord Chief Justice |
The House was 70 members short, since no elections were held in the northern provinces of Fermanagh and Donegal. Six members were Protestant, the remaining 224 Catholic, a minority being Gaelic or 'Old Irish', while the majority were from the Old English Catholic elite. The Speaker or leader was Sir Richard Nagle, a wealthy Catholic lawyer and close ally of Tyrconnell.
| County Antrim | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Armagh | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| County Carlow | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| (1638–1712) | (d. 1717) | ||||
| County Cavan | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Sir Edward Tyrrell Bt. | Newcastle, County Cavan | ||||
| Lara | |||||
| Garirobuck | |||||
| County Clare | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Crattlagh | |||||
| Shrangaloon | |||||
| County Cork | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| knight | |||||
| Clogher, knight | |||||
| Jeremiah O'Donovan | Protestant | ||||
| MacCarthy Reagh | |||||
| Killballane | |||||
| Clonakilty (also Cloghnakilty) | |||||
| Baggotstown | |||||
| Mallow (also Moyallow) | Carragowne | ||||
| Barry was later absolved of treason on the basis that he was elected without his knowledge while in England.[5] | |||||
| alderman | alderman | ||||
| County Dublin | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Lord Mayor of Dublin, knight | alderman | ||||
| Lucan | |||||
| Belgard | |||||
| Drynham | |||||
| knight | |||||
| County Down | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Castlewellan | |||||
| Killyleagh (also Killileagh) | Drummekelly | ||||
| County Galway | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Dunsandle | |||||
| Carrowfrila | |||||
| County Kerry | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Dingle (also Dingle Icouch) | Culmullin | ||||
| knight | |||||
| James Hackett | alderman | ||||
| County Kildare | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| County Kilkenny | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| womaniser | doctor of physick | ||||
| alderman | |||||
| Cloneneassy | |||||
| King's County (Offaly) | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Esq. | gent. | ||||
| County Leitrim | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| County Limerick | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| alderman | alderman | ||||
| Knight of Glin | |||||
| County Longford | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Protestant | |||||
| County Louth | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| recorder | alderman | ||||
| County Mayo | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| County Meath | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Rathaldran | |||||
| County Monaghan | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Queen's County (Laois) | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer | |||||
| knight | |||||
| knight | |||||
| County Roscommon | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| alderman | |||||
| County Sligo | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| County Tipperary | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| alderman | James Hackett | alderman | |||
| alderman | alderman | ||||
| Fethard | |||||
| Graingebegg | |||||
| County Tyrone | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Dungannon | |||||
| Dungannon | |||||
| County Waterford | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| John Porter | |||||
| County Westmeath | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| counsellor at law | |||||
| Fore (also Fowre) | Dardistown | ||||
| Syonane | |||||
| Carlanstowne | |||||
| County Wexford | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| Clonmines (also Cloghmine) | Dublin City | Rosse, merchant | |||
| portreeve | |||||
| Gorey (also Newburgh) | Kilcorky | ||||
| Harperstown | |||||
| merchant | |||||
| Mochury | |||||
| County Wicklow | |||||
| Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes | |
| (upon default of whose appearance Bartholomew Polewhele) | |||||