Dublin City was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Dublin City was represented by two members. In the 1760s the radical politician Charles Lucas used the seat as his political base.

Members of Parliament, 1264–1801

*1557 James Stanihurst (speaker) *1560 James Stanihurst (speaker) and Robert Golding *1569 James Stanihurst (speaker) *1585 George Taylor and Nicholas Ball *1613-1615 Richard Bolton and Richard Barry *1634-1635 Richard Barry and

Nathaniel Catelyn Sir Nathaniel Catelyn (c. 1580 – 1637) (whose family name is also spelt Catlyn or Catlin), was a leading English-born politician and judge in seventeenth-century Ireland. He was Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in the Irish Parliament of 1 ...

Speaker *1639–1649 Richard Barry and John Bysse * 1654–55: Daniel Hutchinson * 1656–58: Richard Tighe *

1659 Events January–March * January 14 – In the Battle of the Lines of Elvas, fought near the small city of Elvas in Portugal during the Portuguese Restoration War, the Spanish Army under the command of Luis Méndez de Haro suff ...

: Arthur Annesley *1661–1666 William Smith and Sir

William Davys Sir William Davys (before 1633 – 1687) was an Irish barrister and judge who held the offices of Recorder of Dublin, Prime Serjeant and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He was suspected of Roman Catholic sympathies and was threatened with remova ...

1689–1801

Elections

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