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Galway Borough (UK Parliament Constituency)
Galway Borough was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency in Ireland. It returned one MP from 1801 to 1832, two MPs from 1832 to 1885 and one MP from 1885 to 1918. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801. Boundaries This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Galway in County Galway. Members of Parliament *''Representation increased to two seats'' (1832) *''Representation reduced to one seat'' (1885) 1There was no election but the IPP split into two factions, and Pinkerton joined the faction opposing Charles Stewart Parnell, Parnell. Elections Elections in the 1830s * On petition, MacLachlan was unseated in favour of Blake Lynch was appointed as a Master in Chancery, requiring a by-election. Elections in the 1840s Valentine Blake's death caused a by-election. Elections in the 1850 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galway
Galway ( ; , ) is a City status in Ireland, city in (and the county town of) County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the List of settlements on the island of Ireland by population, fifth most populous city on the island of Ireland and the List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland, fourth most populous in the Republic of Ireland, with a population at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census of 85,910. Located near an earlier settlement, Galway grew around a fortification built by the List of kings of Connacht, King of Connacht in 1124. A municipal charter in 1484 allowed citizens of the by then walled city to form a Galway City Council, council and mayoralty. Controlled largely by a group of merchant families, the Tribes of Galway, the city grew into a trading port. Following a period of decline, as of the 21st century, Galway is a tourist destination known for festivals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Henry Lynch
Andrew Henry Lynch (1792 – 13 July 1847) was an Irish barrister and a Repeal Association MP. He was the only son of Patrick Lynch and Jane Kelly of Strokestown. He owned the townlands of Lydacan and Lisswulla in Claregalway. In 1810, he graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BA was called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple on 21 January 1818. Blake became Repeal Association Member of Parliament (MP) for Galway Borough in 1833, alongside Lachlan MacLachlan, and held the seat until the 1841 general election, when he did not seek re-election. He received £1,940 in compensation for 85 slaves on the Pembroke, Tobago estate during the abolition of slavery. In 1838, he was appointed a Master in Chancery in England. He married Theresa Butler (d. 1863), daughter of Charles Butler. He died at Tournai Tournai ( , ; ; ; , sometimes Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicised in older sources as "Tournay") is a city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulick De Burgh, Lord Dunkellin
Ulick is a masculine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicised form of the Irish ''Uilleac'' and ''Uilleag''. These Irish names are of an uncertain origin, although they are thought most probably to be derived from the Old Norse ''Hugleikr''. This Old Norse name is composed of two elements: the first, ''hugr'', means "heart", "mind", "spirit"; the second element, ''leikr'', means "play", "sport". The other possibility is that the Irish names are diminutive forms of '' Uilliam'', the Irish form of the English ''William''. List of people with the name *Sir Ulick Alexander (1889–1973), British Army officer, businessman, and courtier * Sir Ulick Burke, 3rd Baronet (died 1708), Irish County Galway landowner and politician * Ulick Bourke (1829–1887), Irish scholar and writer who founded the Gaelic Union, which developed into the Gaelic League * Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (born 1604), Irish nobleman and figure in English Civil War * Ulick Burke, 3rd Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1857 United Kingdom General Election
The 1857 United Kingdom general election was held between 27 March 1857 to 24 April 1857, to elect members of the House of Commons of the UK, House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Whigs (British political party), Whigs, led by Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Lord Palmerston, won a majority in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons as the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative vote fell significantly. The election had been provoked by a vote of censure in Palmerston's government over his approach to the ''Arrow'' affair which led to the Second Opium War. There is no separate tally of votes or seats for the Peelites. They did not contest elections as an organised party but more as independent Free trade Conservatives with varying degrees of distance from the two main parties. According to A. J. P. Taylor: :The general election of 1857 is unique in our history: the only election ever conducted as a simple plebiscit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Irish Party
The Independent Irish Party (IIP) was the designation chosen by the 48 Members of the United Kingdom Parliament returned from Ireland with the endorsement of the Tenant Right League in the 1852 general election. The League had secured their promise to offer an independent opposition (refusing all government favour and office) to the dominant landlord interest, and to advance an agrarian reform programme popularly summarised as the "three F's": fair rent, fixed tenure and free sale. The unity of the grouping was compromised by the priority the majority gave to repealing the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, legislation passed by the Liberal government of Lord John Russell to hamper the restoration in the United Kingdom of a Catholic episcopate, and their independence by the defection of two of their leading members to a new Whig-Peelite government. After further defections, thirteen independents survived the elections in 1857, but then split 1859 on the question of supporting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1852 United Kingdom General Election
The 1852 United Kingdom general election was held from 7 to 31 July 1852. It produced a closely contested result between the Conservatives and Whigs, marking a significant shift in British politics, with the Conservatives increasingly representing the rural aristocracy and the Whigs the urban bourgeoisie. As in the previous election of 1847, Lord John Russell's Whigs won the popular vote, but the Conservative Party won a very slight majority of the seats. However, a split between Protectionist Tories, led by the Earl of Derby, and the Peelites who supported Lord Aberdeen made the formation of a majority government very difficult. Lord Derby's minority, protectionist government ruled from 23 February until 17 December 1852. Derby appointed Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer in this minority government. However, in December 1852, Derby's government collapsed because of issues arising out of the budget introduced by Disraeli. A Peelite–Whig- Radical coalition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony O'Flaherty
Anthony O'Flaherty (1800 – 1866) was an Irish Whig, Independent Irish Party and Repeal Association The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland. The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to ... politician. O'Flaherty was first elected Repeal Association Member of Parliament (MP) for Galway Borough at the 1847 general election and—elected for the Independent Irish Party in 1852, and the Whigs in April 1857—held the seat until July 1857 when he was unseated due to bribery by his agents. References External links * 1800 births 1866 deaths Irish Repeal Association MPs Irish Nationalist politicians Whig (British political party) MPs for Irish constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Galway constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1847 United Kingdom General Election
The 1847 United Kingdom general election was held from 29 July to 26 August 1847. It saw the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives win the most seats but remain divided between Protectionists and Peelite, Peelites. This allowed the Whigs (British political party), Whigs, led by Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Lord John Russell, to retain power. The general election was held amid the Irish famine, Great Irish famine. The Irish Repeal, Irish Repeal group won more seats than in the previous general election, while the Chartists gained the only seat they were ever to hold, Nottingham (UK Parliament constituency), Nottingham's second seat, held by Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor. The election also witnessed the election of Britain's first Jewish MP, the Liberal Lionel de Rothschild in the City of London (UK Parliament constituency), City of London. Members being sworn in were however required to swear the Christian Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom), Oath of Allegi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive website provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library's Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London until 2013, and is now divided between the St Pancras and Boston Spa sites. The library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801. In total, the collection consists of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of microfilm containing tens of millions of newspapers with 52,000 titles on 45 km of shelves. After the closure of Colindale in November 2013, access to the 750 million original printed pages was maintained via an automated and climate-controlled storage fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Henry Monahan
James Henry Monahan (1803 – 8 December 1878) was one of the outstanding Irish judges of his time, and one of the first Irish Roman Catholics to achieve judicial eminence. He held office as Attorney General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Background and education Monahan was born in Portumna, County Galway, the son of Michael Monahan and his wife Mary Bloomfield, daughter of Stephen Bloomfield of Eyrecourt. He went to school in Banagher and graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a gold medal in 1823. He joined Gray's Inn in 1826, and the King's Inns in 1823. Professional career Monahan was called to the Bar in 1828 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1840. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1846 and Attorney-General for Ireland in 1847, and briefly represented Galway Borough in the House of Commons. During this period he acted as principal counsel for the Crown in numerous State trials, including those of John Mitchel, Thomas Francis M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1847 Galway Borough By-election
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1841 United Kingdom General Election
The 1841 United Kingdom general election was held between 29 June and 22 July 1841. Following increasing government defeats, the Conservatives under Sir Robert Peel won a decisive victory against the governing Whigs. The Conservatives campaigned mainly on an 11-point programme modified from their previous electoral effort and designed by Peel, whilst the Whigs emphasised reforming the import duties on corn, replacing the existing sliding scale with a uniform rate. The Whig position lost them support amongst protectionists, and the Whigs saw heavy losses in constituencies like the West Riding, where aristocratic Whig families who held a strong tradition of unbroken representation in Parliament were rejected by the electorate. O'Connell, who had been governing with the Whigs through a compact, felt the government's unpopularity rub off on him. His own party was shattered in the election. Barely a dozen Repealers retained their seats, and O'Connell himself lost in Dublin whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
