List of Irish MPs 1585–1586

This is a list of members of the Irish House of Commons between 1585 and 1586.

NameConstituencyReligionNotes
Francis AnyasYoughal
Richmond ArchboldCross Tipperary
Sir Richard AylwardCounty WaterfordCatholic[1]Of Faithlegg[2]
Sir Nicholas BagenalCounty DownProtestantThe Newry
Nicholas BallDublin CityCatholicAlderman of Dublin
Robert BarnewallArdee
John BarnewallDroghedaOf Brimore/Bremore, Dublin
Richard BarnewallCounty Meath
Edward BerkeleyCounty AntrimProtestant
Sir Richard BinghamCounty RoscommonProtestant
Gerard BlanchevilleCounty Kilkenny
Sir George BourchierKing's CountyProtestant
Richard BourkeCounty Limerick
Edward BrennanCallan
Sir Valentine BrowneCounty SligoProtestant
Henry BurnellCounty DublinCatholicOf Castleknock
James ButlerCounty Tipperary
Boetius ClancyCounty ClareProtestant[3]Of Knockfine
Robert CoddCounty Wexford
William CoganCounty CorkHis daughter married John de Courcy, 18th Baron Kingsale
James CollenYoughal
Gerald ComerfordCallanProtestant
Thomas CoppingerYoughal
Redmond EverardCounty TipperaryCatholic
Geoffrey FentonCounty CarlowProtestantOf Dublin - Principal Secretary of State
John FitzedmondCounty CorkOf Cloyne
John FitzgeraldCounty Kerry
Matthew FitzhenryCounty Wexford
Thomas FitzmauriceCounty Kildare
James GalweyKinsaleOf Kinsale
Roger GerloneCounty Louth
Robert HarpollQueen's County
Thomas Le StraungeCounty Galway
Sir Hugh MagennisCounty DownCatholicOf Rathfriland
John MeadeCork City
William MoreCounty Louth
John NettervilleCounty MeathCatholic
Richard NettervilleCounty DublinCatholicOf Corballis/Corballies, Dublin
Sir John NorreysCounty CorkProtestantLord President of Munster
Thomas NorrisCounty LimerickProtestant
Edward Nugent of DisertCounty Westmeath
Edward Nugent of MortonCounty WestmeathCatholic[4]
Peter NugentDrogheda
Sir Turlough O'BrienCounty ClareCatholicOf Inishdyman - Grandson of Connor O'Brien, King of Thomond
Faghna or Faghtna O'FarrellCounty LongfordCatholicO'Farrell Boy, Lord of South Annaly
William O'FarrellCounty LongfordCatholicO'Farrell Bane, Lord of North Annaly
Shane McBrien O'NeillCounty AntrimOf Shane's Castle
Philip O'ReillyCounty CavanCatholicOf Cavan - Claimant to the Lordship of East Breifne
Edmund O'ReillyCounty CavanCatholicClaimant to the Lordship of East Breifne
Edmund PrendergastCross TipperaryOf Newcastle, County Tipperary
Philip RocheKinsaleOf Kinsale
Robert RotheCounty Kilkenny
Sir Warham St LegerQueen's CountyProtestant
Thomas SarsfieldCork City
Francis ShaneCounty Galway
James SherlockCounty WaterfordOf Grace Dieu, about a mile to the west of Waterford[5]
Thomas SpringCounty KerryGentleman, son of Katherine ne Dermodo [6]
William SuttonCounty Kildare
George TaylorDublin CityOf Dublin
Sir Henry WallopCounty CarlowProtestantOf Dublin
Nicholas WalshWaterford CityProtestantSpeaker
Henry WaringKing's County
Edward WaterhouseCarrickfergusProtestant

The following present-day counties were not represented: County Armagh, County Donegal, County Fermanagh, County Leitrim, County Londonderry, County Monaghan and County Tyrone.

References

  1. ↑ Canon Power churches
  2. ↑ "Journal of the Waterford & South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society" Vol. IX.— No. I - Quarter — Jan to March 1906, page 52
  3. ↑ "The History and Topography of the County of Clare" by James Frost - 'forsook his faith'
  4. ↑ "This Edward Nugent the lawyer is conjectured both a dangerous and malicious man against the state. In the last parliament when an Act entitled “An Act for provision to be made for surety of the Majesty's most royal person” etc. was moved in the Lower House he used a long premeditated speech in defence of the mass and Romish religion with imputation of all good success whereunto and encounter since." Nugent, Brian (2008). Shakespeare Was Irish!. p. 200.citing Public Record Office of Northern Ireland item D3835/A/4/297 - Richard Nugent's notes on and transcriptions of State Papers, Home Office Papers, Hatfield House Papers, etc: 1850 - 1890
  5. ↑ "Journal of the Waterford & South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society" Vol. IX.— No. I - Quarter — Jan to March 1906, page 52
  6. ↑ Peyton's Survey, Paragraph 33
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