List of parliaments of Ireland

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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.

MonarchSequenceOpenedDismissedCommons Speaker (date [lower-alpha 1] )SessionsGeneral CouncilsCouncilsLocations (no. sessions)Notes
Henry III 118 June 1264c.29 September 1269None2 Castledermot
Edward I 129 September 12769 April 1307191 Dublin (13); Kildare (1); Kilkenny (4)"Wogan's Parliament" of 1297 was the first with representatives elected by counties.
Edward II 19 February 13108 July 132614Dublin (6), Kildare (1), Kilmainham (1), Kilkenny (5).
Edward III 110 May 13278 January 13772989Dublin (20), Ballydoyle/Cashel (1), Kilkenny (11).The Statutes of Kilkenny were passed by the 1366 session.
Richard II 114 January 1378Summer 139613511Dublin (4), Trim (1), Kilkenny (2), Castledermot (4).
Henry IV 1Spring 14014 February 14121325Dublin (7), New Ross (1), Kilkenny (2) Waterford (2).
Henry VI 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". [1] [2] The 1495 statute 10 Hen. 7. c. 23 (I) annulled this parliament. [3]
Edward IV 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. [4]
Richard III 119 March 1484After 148562Dublin (3), Naas.
Henry VII 114 July 1486after July 15092011Dublin (9), Castledermot (2), Trim (2), Drogheda (4). Poynings' Parliament (1494–5) passed Poynings' Law (10 Hen. 7. c. 4 (I))
"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. [5]
Henry VIII 125 February 15162 October 15163Dublin (3)
Henry VIII 24 June 152121 March 15227Dublin (7)
Henry VIII 315 September 153131 October 15312Dublin (1), Drogheda (1)
Henry VIII 419 May 1533after 2 October 15333Dublin (3)
Henry VIII 51 May 153620 December 1537At least 9Dublin (at least 6) Kilkenny (1), Cashel (1), Limerick (1)Instigated the Reformation in Ireland
Henry VIII 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 I 11 June 15571 March 1558 James Stanihurst 3Dublin (1), Limerick (1), Drogheda (1)
Elizabeth I 112 January 15601 February 1560James Stanihurst1Dublin
Elizabeth I217 January 156925 April 1571James Stanihurst10Dublin (9), Drogheda (1)
Elizabeth I326 April 158514 May 1586 List Nicholas Walsh 7
James I 118 May 161324 October 1615Sir John Davies 3First 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. [6]
Charles I 1 14 July 163418 April 1635Sir Nathaniel Catelyn 4
Charles I 2 16 March 163930 January 1649 [lower-alpha 2] List Sir Maurice Eustace 6
Interregnum 30 Irish MPs sat at Westminster in the Protectorate Parliament (1653–59)
Charles II 18 May 16617 August 1666 List Sir Audley Mervyn 4
James II 17 May 168918 July 1689 List Sir Richard Nagle 1 Patriot Parliament convened by Jacobites after the Revolution of 1688. The Irish act 7 Will. 3. c. 3 (I) (1695) annulled all actions of this "pretended Parliament" and ordered its records burnt. [7] [8]
William III and Mary II 15 October 169226 June 1693 List Sir Richard Levinge 1
William III227 August 169514 June 1699 List Robert Rochfort 2
Anne 121 September 17036 May 1713 List Alan Brodrick 6
John Forster (19 May 1710)
Anne225 November 17131 August 1714 List Alan Brodrick1Dissolved by the death of the Queen
George I 112 November 171511 June 1727 List William Conolly 6Dissolved by the death of the King
George II 128 November 172725 October 1760 List William Conolly17Dissolved by the death of the King
Sir Ralph Gore (13 October 1729)
Henry Boyle (4 October 1733)
John Ponsonby (26 April 1756)
George III 122 October 176128 May 1768 List John Ponsonby4The Octennial Act passed in 1768 limited parliaments to a term of 8 years at most
George III217 October 17695 April 1776 List John Ponsonby5
Edmund Sexton Pery (7 March 1771)
George III318 June 177625 July 1783 List Edmund Sexton Pery4The Constitution of 1782 instigated Grattan's Parliament
George III414 October 17838 April 1790 List Edmund Sexton Pery7
John Foster (5 September 1785)
George III52 July 179011 July 1797 List John Foster8
George III69 January 179831 December 1800 List John Foster3Dissolved by the Acts of Union 1800
  1. ↑ Where no date is given, the speaker took the chair at the opening of Parliament
  2. ↑ Dissolved by the King's death

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

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  2. ↑ Curtis, Edmund; McDowell, Robert Brendan (1968). Irish historical documents, 1172-1922. Barnes & Noble. p. 73.
  3. ↑ Ireland (1765). "Chap. XXIII An Act repealing a Parliament holden at Drogheda, before Robert Prestone, lord of Gormanstowne. Rot. Parl. cap. 40". 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. Vol. 1. B. Grierson. p. 57.
  4. ↑ Statute 8 Edw. 4 Sess. 3 c. 6 (I); Edwards, R. Dudley; Moody, T. W.; Otway-Ruthven, Jocelyn; Quinn, David B.; Richardson, H. G. (1942). "Parliaments and Great Councils in Ireland, 1461-1586". Irish Historical Studies. 3 (9): 60–77: 67. ISSN   0021-1214. JSTOR   30005995.
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  7. ↑ Statutes Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland: 1665-1712. George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1794. pp. 241–3.
  8. ↑ Davis, Thomas Osborne. "The Irish Parliament of James II". CELT. University College Cork. p. 54. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
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