This is alist of parliaments of Ireland to 1801.
For subsequent parliaments, see thelist of parliaments of the United Kingdom. For post-1918 parliaments, seeelections in Ireland. Parliaments before 1264 are not currently listed.
Monarch | Sequence[a] | Opened | Dismissed[b] | Commons | Speaker (date[c]) | Sessions[a] | Great Councils[d] | Councils[d] | Locations (no. sessions[a]) | Notes |
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Henry III | — | 18 June 1264 | After 29 September 1269 | None | 2 | Castledermot (1); unknown (1) | ||||
Edward I | — | 1276–7 | After 9 April 1307 | 19 | 1 | Dublin (13);Kildare (1);Kilkenny (4) | "Wogan's Parliament" of 1297 was the first with representatives elected bycounties. | |||
Edward II | — | 9 February 1310 | After 8 July 1326 | 14 | Dublin (6), Kildare (1),Kilmainham (1), Kilkenny (5). | |||||
Edward III | — | 10 May 1327 | After 8 January 1377 | 29 | 8 | 9 | Dublin (20),Ballydoyle/Cashel (1), Kilkenny (11). | TheStatutes of Kilkenny were passed by the 1366 session. | ||
Richard II | — | 14 January 1378 | Summer 1396 | 13 | 5 | 11 | Dublin (4),Trim (1), Kilkenny (2), Castledermot (4). | |||
Henry IV | — | Spring 1401 | After 4 February 1412 | 13 | 2 | 5 | Dublin (7),New Ross (1), Kilkenny (2)Waterford (2). | |||
Henry VI | — | 1425 | 21 July 1460 | 32 | 17 | 1 | Dublin (30), Trim (1),Naas (2),Drogheda (6), Kilkenny (1). | The 1460 parliament was assembled byRichard of York and declared that "the land of Ireland is, and at all times has been, corporate of itself".[1][2] | ||
Edward IV | — | 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 toLord Grey. A Parliament summoned by Grey at Trim on 6 November 1478 annulled one summoned by Kildare at Naas in May.[3] | ||||
Richard III | — | 19 March 1484 | After 24 October 1485 | 8 | 2 | Dublin (3), Naas (2), Trim (2), unknown (1) | ||||
Henry VII | — | 14 July 1486 | After July 1509 | 20 | 1 | 1 | Dublin (9), Castledermot (2), Trim (2), Drogheda (4). | Poynings' Parliament (1494–5) annulled the 1493 Parliament summoned by Poynings' predecessorRobert Preston, 1st Viscount Gormanston,[4] and passedPoynings' Law,[5] which tightly regulated future Parliaments. | ||
"Edward VI" (Lambert Simnel) | — | May/June 1487 | October 1487 | 1 | 1 | Dublin | Parliament summoned by Lord DeputyKildare considered void; the 1495 statute10 Hen. 7. c. 14 (I) may have annulled it.[6] | |||
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 theReformation in Ireland. It also removed the right of the proctors, representing the lower clergy, to sit in Parliament. | ||||
Henry VIII | 6 | 13 June 1541 | 19 November 1543 | SirThomas Cusack (c. 13 June 1541) | 8 | Dublin (6), Trim (1), Limerick (1) | Passed theCrown 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 | SirJohn 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.[7] | ||||
Charles I | 1 | 14 July 1634 | 18 April 1635 | SirNathaniel Catelyn | 4 | |||||
Charles I | 2 | 16 March 1639 | 30 January 1649[e] | List | SirMaurice Eustace | 6 | ||||
Interregnum | 30 Irish MPs sat at Westminster in theProtectorate Parliament (1653–59) | |||||||||
Charles II | 1 | 8 May 1661 | 7 August 1666 | List | SirAudley Mervyn | 4 | ||||
James II | 1 | 7 May 1689 | 18 July 1689 | List | SirRichard Nagle | 1 | Patriot Parliament convened byJacobites after theRevolution of 1688. The Irish act 7 Will. 3. c. 3 (I) (1695) annulled all actions of this "pretended Parliament" and ordered its records burnt.[8][9] | |||
William III andMary II | 1 | 5 October 1692 | 26 June 1693 | List | SirRichard 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 | |||
SirRalph 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 | TheOctennial 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 | TheConstitution 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 theActs of Union 1800 |
The kingdoms ofIreland andGreat Britain joined on 1 January 1801. For subsequent parliaments see thelist of parliaments of the United Kingdom.