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Monarch
Sequence
Opened
Dismissed
Commons
Speaker (date[n 1])
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.
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 Henry VII c.23 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)
"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 Henry VII c.14 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[7]
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. III, c. 3 (1695) annulled all actions of this "pretended Parliament" and ordered its records burnt.[8][9]
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
^Where no date is given, the speaker took the chair at the opening of Parliament
The kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain joined on 1 January 1801. For subsequent parliaments see the list of parliaments of the United Kingdom.
^Lydon, James F. (Summer 1995). "'Ireland Corporate of itself' the Parliament of 1460". History Ireland. 3 (2). JSTOR 27724246.
^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.
^1Statute 8 Edw. 4 sess. 3 c. 6; 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.
^Dissolved by the King's death
^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.
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