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Coleraine (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Coleraine

Abolished
  
1800

Coleraine was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

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History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Coleraine was not represented. The borough was disenfranchised under the terms of the Act of Union 1800.

Members of Parliament

  • 1613 Sir Barnabas O'Brien, later Earl of Thomond
  • Henry Conyngham
  • 1661–1668 Randal Beresford

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    Coleraine (Parliament of Ireland constituency) Wikipedia
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