Michael Creagh (politician)

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Sir Michael Creagh (died 1738) was an Irish politician and soldier. [1]

Although a Protestant, he was a Jacobite supporter of the Catholic James II. [1] He was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1688 to 1689 and received James II on his arrival to the city in March 1689. He was a Member of Parliament for Dublin City in the Patriot Parliament in 1689. [2] [3] He raised an infantry regiment at his own expense to serve in the Irish Army during the War of the Two Kings (1689–91), which was present at the Battle of the Boyne. [4]

Following the Jacobite defeat in Ireland, Creagh was attainted and fled to France and then to the Netherlands. He had returned to Ireland by the mid–1720s and turned his attention to regaining his confiscated estates. He converted from Roman Catholicism to the established Church of Ireland and became a broadsheet publisher. Creagh failed in his attempt to regain his confiscated properties and had to be helped from the public funds in 1732, 1733, and 1734. He died intestate in 1738. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Ó Ciardha, Éamonn (October 2009). "Creagh, Sir Michael". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  2. Lord Mayors of Dublin 1665 – 2020. Dublin City Council. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  3. O'Hart, John, The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  4. McNally, Michael. Battle of the Boyne 1690: The Irish Campaign for the English Crown. Osprey Publishing, 2005. p.52.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
William Smith
Sir William Davys
Member of Parliament for Dublin City
1689
With: Terence MacDermott
Succeeded by
Civic offices
Preceded by Lord Mayor of Dublin
1688–1689
Succeeded by