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4 unusual facts about Parliament of Ireland


Oliver Jones

Oliver Jones (Irish MP) (d. 1664), Welsh-Irish soldier and member of the Parliament of Ireland

Parliament of Ireland

Under what became known as the Constitution of 1782 the restrictions imposed by Poyning's Law were removed by the Repeal of Act for Securing Dependence of Ireland Act 1782.

Over the centuries, the Irish parliament met in a number of locations both inside and outside Dublin - the first place of definitive date and place was Castledermot, County Kildare on 18 June 1264 some months earlier than the first English Parliament containing elected members.

Sir John Parnell

From a line of politically motivated ancestry who moved to Ireland in the 1600s, Sir John rose to the highest positions in Irish politics and Parliament as Commissioner of Revenue (1780), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1787) and Lord of the Treasury (1793).


1715 in Ireland

County Palatine of Tipperary Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, enables purchase by the crown of rights and revenues in County Tipperary held by the Dukes of Ormonde.

Daly's Club

This was once "Daly's Club-house," where all the noblemen and gentlemen of both Houses would adjourn to dine and drink; where were seen Mr. Grattan, and Mr. Flood with "his broken beak," and Mr. Curran, and those brilliant but guerilla debaters, whose encounters both of wit and logic make our modern parliamentary contests sound tame and languid.

Edmond Stanley

Sir Edmond Stanley SL (1760–1843) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician who served as Serjeant-at-Law of the Parliament of Ireland, Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, now Penang, and subsequently Chief Justice of Madras.

Irish Conservative Party

Many saw themselves as the successors of William Molyneux and his 1698 pamphlet, The Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, in which he made an argument disputing the right of the English Parliament to legislate for Ireland, as the kingdom had its own parliament.

Rochfortbridge

The village proper was set out by Robert Rochfort, MP for Westmeath from 1651 to 1727, and grandfather of Robert, 1st Earl of Belvedere.

Sir Valentine Blake, 3rd Baronet

He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 19 July 1628, was knighted on 3 October 1629, and sat in the Parliament of Ireland of 1634–35 as MP either for Tuam or Galway county.


see also

Disqualifications Act 2000

The Act amended the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 and the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975, which had previously disqualified any person who was a member of a legislature outside the Commonwealth from becoming a member of the Commons or the Assembly, to remove the disqualification from members of the Oireachtas (the Parliament of Ireland).

Hugh Hill

Sir Hugh Hill, 1st Baronet (1728–1795) of the Hill baronets, member for Londonderry City in Parliament of Ireland