Galway Town (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Galway Borough
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Galway
Borough	Galway
1264 (1264)–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Galway Borough

Galway was a constituency representing the town of Galway in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Galway Borough was represented with two members. ^[1]

Members of Parliament, 1264–1801

• 1560 Jonoke Lynch and Peter Lynch ^[2]
• 1585 Jonoke Lynch and Peter Lynch and Robert French ^[2]
• 1613–1615 Geoffrey Lynch and Sir Valentine Blake, 1st Baronet ^[2]
• 1634–1635 Sir Thomas Blake (expelled) and Nicholas Lynch ^[2]
• 1639–1642 Sir Robuck Lynch, 2nd Baronet and Sir Valentine Blake, 3rd Baronet ^[2]
• 1661–1666 Edward Eyre and John Eyre ^[3]

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689		Oliver Martin			John Kirwan
1692		Sir Henry Bellasis			Nehemiah Donnellan
1695		Richard St George			Robert Ormsby
1703		Edward Eyre			John Staunton [note 1]
1713		Samuel Eyre
1715		Robert Shaw
1716					Edward Eyre
1727		John Staunton			Thomas Staunton
1732					Thomas Staunton
1735		Dominick Bourke
1748		Hon. Richard FitzPatrick [note 2]
1748		John Eyre
1761					Hon. Richard FitzPatrick
1767					Denis Daly
1768		James Daly			Robert French
1771		Anthony Daly
1776					Denis Bowes Daly
1783		Denis Daly [note 3]
1783		Anthony Daly
1790		Denis Daly			Sir Skeffington Smyth, 1st Bt
1792		Peter Daly
1798		St George Daly			George Ponsonby
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Galway Borough

Notes

1. Declared not duly elected in 1715
2. Declared not duly elected in 1748
3. Also elected for County Galway in 1783, for which he chose to sit.

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
2. McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641. Department of History (PhD thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
3. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 618.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN   978-0-7884-1927-0.
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons . Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.