Abraham Morris (1752 – 13 February 1822) was an Irish banker. He sat in the

Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fra ...

for

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...

from 1791 to 1797.E. M. Johnston-Liik, ''History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800'', vol. V, pp. 324–5. Morris was involved in a feud with

Art Ó Laoghaire Art Ó Laoghaire (IPA:ˈaɾˠt̪ˠoːˈl̪ˠiːəɾʲə, also Airt Ó Laoghaire or Art O'Leary, born 1746, died 4 May 1773), a Roman Catholic member of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland, was a Captain in the Hungarian Hussars Regiment of the army o ...

, and ordered Ó Laoghaire's death in 1773. The Irish lament

Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire or the ''Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire'' is an Irish keen composed in the main by his wife Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, a member of the Gaelic gentry of County Kerry in the 18th century. It has been described as the great ...

, was composed by Ó Laoghaire's widow

Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (also known as Eileen O'Connell, ) was a member of the Irish gentry and a poet. She was the main composer of ''Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire'', a traditional lament in Irish described (in its written form) as the greate ...

about his murder.

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1752 births 1822 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Members of the Middle Temple Irish barristers Irish bankers High Sheriffs of County Cork Irish MPs 1790–1797 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub