Members of the 1689 Irish 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 Commons was 70 members short since there were no elections in Fermanagh and Donegal, while its members were overwhelmingly Old English and Catholic.[1] 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.[2]
Members of the Lords[]
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.[3] 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.[2]
The members of the House of Lords are as follows:[4]
Members of the Commons[]
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.[8] The Speaker or leader was Sir Richard Nagle, a wealthy Catholic lawyer and close ally of Tryrconnell.[9]
County Antrim | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
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Antrim County | ||||
Belfast | Marcus Talbot | |||
County Armagh | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Armagh City | ||||
Armagh County | Arthur Brownlow | |||
County Carlow | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Carlow Borough | ||||
Carlow County | (1638–1712) | Henry Luttrell | (d. 1717) | |
Old Leighlin | ||||
County Cavan | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Belturbet | Sir Bt. | |||
Cavan Borough | Philip Oge O'Reyly | Hugh Reily | Lara | |
Cavan County | Philip Reyley | John Reyly | ||
County Clare | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Clare County | Daniel O'Brien | |||
Ennis | Dromod | Theobald Butler | ||
County Cork | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Cork City | Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter | knight | ||
Cork County | Justin McCarthy | Sir Richard Nagle | Clogher, knight | |
Kinsale | ||||
Baltimore | Daniel O'Donavan | Jeremiah O'Donovan | Protestant | |
Bandonbridge | MacCarthy Reagh | |||
Charleville | ||||
Clonakilty (also Cloghnakilty) | Lt.-Col. | |||
Doneraile | Daniel O'Donovan | |||
Midleton | ||||
Mallow (also Moyallow) | Castlemore | |||
Rathcormack | James Barry | Barry was later absolved of treason on the basis that he was elected without his knowledge while in England.[10] | ||
Youghal | alderman | alderman | ||
County Dublin | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Dublin City | Sir Michael Creagh | Lord Mayor of Dublin, knight | alderman | |
Dublin County | Patrick Sarsfield | Lucan | ||
Newcastle | John Talbot | Belgard | ||
Swords | , Co. Meath | Drynham | ||
Dublin University | Sir John Meade, Bt | knight | ||
County Down | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Down County | Castlewellan | |||
Killyleagh (also Killileagh) | ||||
Newry | ||||
County Galway | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Athenry | Mount Talbot | |||
Galway Borough | Oliver Martin | |||
Galway County | Sir Ulick Burke | Glinsk | Sir Walter Blake | |
Tuam | James Lally | |||
County Kerry | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Ardfert | Col. | |||
Dingle (also Dingle Icouch) | , County Limerick | |||
Kerry County | Sir | knight | ||
Tralee | James Hackett | alderman | ||
County Kildare | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Athy | ||||
Harristown | ||||
Kildare Borough | ||||
Kildare County | George Aylmer | |||
Naas | ||||
County Kilkenny | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Callan | ||||
Gowran | Colonel Robert Fielding | womaniser | doctor of physick | |
Inistioge | ||||
Kilkenny City | Mayor | alderman | ||
Kilkenny County | ||||
Knocktopher | ||||
Thomastown | ||||
King's County (Offaly) | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Banagher | Esq. | gent. | ||
King's County | Heward Oxburgh | |||
Philipstown | ||||
County Leitrim | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Jamestown | ||||
Leitrim | ||||
County Limerick | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Askeaton | ||||
Kilmallock | ||||
Limerick City | alderman | alderman | ||
Limerick County | Sir | Knight of Glin | ||
County Longford | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Lanesborough | ||||
Longford County | ||||
St Johnstown | Sir William Ellis | Protestant | Lt.-Col. | |
County Louth | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Ardee | ||||
Carlingford | ||||
Dundalk | ||||
Drogheda | recorder | alderman | ||
Louth | ||||
County Mayo | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Castlebar | portreeve | |||
Mayo County | ||||
County Meath | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Athboy | ||||
Kells | ||||
Meath County | Sir William Talbot, Bt. | Sir | ||
Navan | ||||
Ratoath | ||||
Trim | Capt. | |||
County Monaghan | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Queen's County (Laois) | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Ballynakill | Sir | Oliver Grace | Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer | |
Maryborough | ||||
Portarlington | Sir Henry Bond, Bt. | knight | ||
Queen's County | Sir | knight | ||
County Roscommon | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Boyle | Capt. | alderman | ||
Roscommon Borough | ||||
Roscommon County | Charles Kelly | |||
County Sligo | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Sligo Borough | ||||
Sligo County | Longford House, Beltra | Oliver O'Gara | ||
County Tipperary | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Cashel | alderman | James Hackett | alderman | |
Clonmel | alderman | alderman | ||
Fethard | Sir | Fethard | ||
Tipperary | Nicholas Purcell | Loughmore | James Butler | |
County Tyrone | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Dungannon | Dungannon | |||
Strabane | ||||
Tyrone | Colonel | Dungannon | ||
County Waterford | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Dungarvan | ||||
Waterford City | John Porter | |||
Waterford County | ||||
County Westmeath | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Athlone | counsellor at law | |||
Fore (also Fowre) | Donore | |||
Kilbeggan | Donore | |||
Mullingar | Gerald Dillon | |||
Westmeath County | ||||
County Wexford | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Bannow | Dr. | |||
Clonmines (also Cloghmine) | Dublin City | Rosse, merchant | ||
Enniscorthy | portreeve | |||
Fethard | Rt Hon. Col. James Porter | |||
Gorey (also Newburgh) | ||||
New Ross | ||||
Taghmon | ||||
Wexford Borough | merchant | |||
Wexford County | ||||
County Wicklow | ||||
Constituency | First Member | Notes | Second Member | Notes |
Blessington | Maurice Eustace | |||
Carysfort | (upon default of whose appearance ) | |||
Wicklow Borough | ||||
Wicklow County |
References[]
- ^ Harris 2006, p. 437.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Moody, Martin and Byrne 2009, p. 489.
- ^ Slater 2007, p. Online.
- ^ G.E.C., ed. Vicary Gibbs and H. Arthur Doubleday, The Complete Peerage, vol. III (1913) Appendix D.
- ^ The Complete Peerage, vol. III, p. 117.
- ^ John D'Alton, King James's Irish Army List, vol. II (1861) p. 413.
- ^ King James's Irish Army List, vol. II, p. 182.
- ^ Szechi 1994, pp. 47–48.
- ^ McGuire 2004, p. Online.
- ^ "Imposition on Grants". House of Commons Journal. London: British History Online. 12: 278–280. 20 May 1698. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
Sources[]
- Harris, Tim (2005). Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685–1720 (2007 ed.). Penguin. ISBN 978-0141016528.
- McGuire, James (2004). Nagle, Sir Richard (Online ed.). Oxford DNB.
- Moody; Martin; Byrne (eds.) (2009). A New History of Ireland: Volume III: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691. OUP. ISBN 9780198202424.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- Slater, Victor (2004). Fitton, Alexander [styled Sir Alexander Fitton], Jacobite Baron Fitton (Online ed.). Oxford DNB.
- Szechi, Daniel (1994). The Jacobites: Britain and Europe 1688-1788. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719037740.
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