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.
| Monarch | Sequence | Opened | Dismissed | Commons | Speaker (date[a]) | Sessions | General Councils | Councils | Locations (no. sessions) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry III | 1 | 18 June 1264 | c.29 September 1269 | None | 2 | Castledermot | ||||
| Edward I | 1 | 29 September 1276 | 9 April 1307 | 19 | 1 | Dublin (13); Kildare (1); Kilkenny (4) | "Wogan's Parliament" of 1297 was the first with representatives elected by counties. | |||
| Edward II | 1 | 9 February 1310 | 8 July 1326 | 14 | Dublin (6), Kildare (1), Kilmainham (1), Kilkenny (5). | |||||
| Edward III | 1 | 10 May 1327 | 8 January 1377 | 29 | 8 | 9 | Dublin (20), Ballydoyle/Cashel (1), Kilkenny (11). | The Statutes of Kilkenny were passed by the 1366 session. | ||
| Richard II | 1 | 14 January 1378 | Summer 1396 | 13 | 5 | 11 | Dublin (4), Trim (1), Kilkenny (2), Castledermot (4). | |||
| Henry IV | 1 | Spring 1401 | 4 February 1412 | 13 | 2 | 5 | Dublin (7), New Ross (1), Kilkenny (2) Waterford (2). | |||
| Henry VI | 1 | 1425 | 9 February 1459 | 32 | 17 | 1 | Dublin (25), Trim (1), Naas (2), Drogheda (5), Kilkenny (1). | |||
| Henry VI | 2 | 7 February 1460 | 21 July 1460 | Drogheda (1), Dublin | The 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 | 1 | 12 June 1461 | after 7 February 1483 | 61 | Dublin (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 | 1 | 19 March 1484 | After 1485 | 6 | 2 | Dublin (3), Naas. | ||||
| Henry VII | 1 | 14 July 1486 | after July 1509 | 20 | 1 | 1 | Dublin (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 1487 | June/October 1487 | 1 | 1 | Dublin | Parliament summoned by Lord Deputy Kildare considered void; the 1495 statute 10 Hen. 7. c. 14 (I) may have annulled it.[5] | ||||
| Henry VIII | 1 | 25 February 1516 | 2 October 1516 | 3 | Dublin (3) | |||||
| Henry VIII | 2 | 4 June 1521 | 21 March 1522 | 7 | Dublin (7) | |||||
| Henry VIII | 3 | 15 September 1531 | 31 October 1531 | 2 | Dublin (1), Drogheda (1) | |||||
| Henry VIII | 4 | 19 May 1533 | after 2 October 1533 | 3 | Dublin (3) | |||||
| Henry VIII | 5 | 1 May 1536 | 20 December 1537 | At least 9 | Dublin (at least 6) Kilkenny (1), Cashel (1), Limerick (1) | Instigated the Reformation in Ireland | ||||
| Henry VIII | 6 | 13 June 1541 | 19 November 1543 | Sir Thomas Cusack (c. 13 June 1541) | 8 | Dublin (6), Trim (1), Limerick (1) | Passed the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 | |||
| Mary I | 1 | 1 June 1557 | 1 March 1558 | James Stanihurst | 3 | Dublin (1), Limerick (1), Drogheda (1) | ||||
| Elizabeth I | 1 | 12 January 1560 | 1 February 1560 | James Stanihurst | 1 | Dublin | ||||
| Elizabeth I | 2 | 17 January 1569 | 25 April 1571 | James Stanihurst | 10 | Dublin (9), Drogheda (1) | ||||
| Elizabeth I | 3 | 26 April 1585 | 14 May 1586 | List | Nicholas Walsh | 7 | ||||
| James I | 1 | 18 May 1613 | 24 October 1615 | Sir John Davies | 3 | First 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 1634 | 18 April 1635 | Sir Nathaniel Catelyn | 4 | |||||
| Charles I | 2 | 16 March 1639 | 30 January 1649[b] | List | Sir Maurice Eustace | 6 | ||||
| Interregnum | 30 Irish MPs sat at Westminster in the Protectorate Parliament (1653–59) | |||||||||
| Charles II | 1 | 8 May 1661 | 7 August 1666 | List | Sir Audley Mervyn | 4 | ||||
| James II | 1 | 7 May 1689 | 18 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 | 1 | 5 October 1692 | 26 June 1693 | List | Sir Richard Levinge | 1 | ||||
| William III | 2 | 27 August 1695 | 14 June 1699 | List | Robert Rochfort | 2 | ||||
| Anne | 1 | 21 September 1703 | 6 May 1713 | List | Alan Brodrick | 6 | ||||
| John Forster (19 May 1710) | ||||||||||
| Anne | 2 | 25 November 1713 | 1 August 1714 | List | Alan Brodrick | 1 | Dissolved by the death of the Queen | |||
| George I | 1 | 12 November 1715 | 11 June 1727 | List | William Conolly | 6 | Dissolved by the death of the King | |||
| George II | 1 | 28 November 1727 | 25 October 1760 | List | William Conolly | 17 | Dissolved by the death of the King | |||
| Sir Ralph Gore (13 October 1729) | ||||||||||
| Henry Boyle (4 October 1733) | ||||||||||
| John Ponsonby (26 April 1756) | ||||||||||
| George III | 1 | 22 October 1761 | 28 May 1768 | List | John Ponsonby | 4 | The Octennial Act passed in 1768 limited parliaments to a term of 8 years at most | |||
| George III | 2 | 17 October 1769 | 5 April 1776 | List | John Ponsonby | 5 | ||||
| Edmund Sexton Pery (7 March 1771) | ||||||||||
| George III | 3 | 18 June 1776 | 25 July 1783 | List | Edmund Sexton Pery | 4 | The Constitution of 1782 instigated Grattan's Parliament | |||
| George III | 4 | 14 October 1783 | 8 April 1790 | List | Edmund Sexton Pery | 7 | ||||
| John Foster (5 September 1785) | ||||||||||
| George III | 5 | 2 July 1790 | 11 July 1797 | List | John Foster | 8 | ||||
| George III | 6 | 9 January 1798 | 31 December 1800 | List | John Foster | 3 | Dissolved by the Acts of Union 1800 |
The kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain joined on 1 January 1801. For subsequent parliaments see the list of parliaments of the United Kingdom.
References
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- ^ Curtis, Edmund; McDowell, Robert Brendan (1968). Irish historical documents, 1172-1922. Barnes & Noble. p. 73.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Ellis, S. G. (1980). "Parliaments and Great Councils, 1483-99: Addenda et Corrigenda". Analecta Hibernica (29). Irish Manuscripts Commission: 96, 98–111 : 101–102. JSTOR 25511959.
- ^ Clarke, Aidan (1976). A New History of Ireland, Volume III, Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1691, edited by T. W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne. Oxford : Clarendon Press. p. 213.
- ^ Statutes Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland: 1665-1712. George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1794. pp. 241–3.
- ^ Davis, Thomas Osborne. "The Irish Parliament of James II". CELT. University College Cork. p. 54. Retrieved 18 May 2017.