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Athenry was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.

History

Athenry was represented as early as 1378.

In the first Parliament of Elizabeth, Athenry was represented by Thomas Cusack, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Andrew Browne. In Elizabeth's second Parliament, one of its representatives was John Hooker, an Englishman. Hooker wrote the Irish additions to the 1587 update of Holinshed's Chronicles, in which he describes his own participation in a debate on a bill for the impost of wines.

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Athenry was represented with two members.

Members of Parliament

• 1559 Sir Thomas Cusack and Andrew Browne
• 1569 John Hooker and another
• 1585 William Browne and Nicholas Lynch
• 1613–1615 Stephen Browne and Ludovic Bodkin
• 1634–1635 David Burke and Richard Martyn
• 1639–1649 Geoffrey Browne and John Blake alias Caddell
• 1661 Henry Whaley and Sir Henry Waddington

1689–1801

Notes

References

1. Commissioners on Municipal Corporations in Ireland (1835). "Athenry". Appendix to the First Report, Part I. 287 §2.; "Close Roll, 1 Richard II, No.81". CIRCLE. Trinity College Dublin. 22 January 1378. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
2. Patterson, Annabel (1994). Reading Holinshed's Chronicles. University of Chicago Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 9780226649122.; THE SVPPLIE OF THE Irish Chronicles extended to this present yeare of our Lord 1586, and the 28 of the reigne of queene Elisabeth. University of Oxford. 2008–2013 . pp. Vol.3 p.111. Retrieved 24 May 2017. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
3. O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
4. McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History. hdl:2262/77206.
5. ^ McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641". hdl:2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
6. ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 618.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

• Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
• Historic constituencies in County Galway
• 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
• Constituencies disestablished in 1800