Member of Parliament (pre-Union Ireland)
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Members of the lower House of the Irish Parliament, the Irish House of Commons, were like their British counterparts known as Members of Parliament.
Whereas in from 1832 onwards the British House of Commons underwent electoral reform to abolish rotten boroughs, many seats in the Irish House of Commons were effectively owned or under the control of senior political figures.
The unreformed Irish House of Commons, along with the Irish House of Lords, was abolished with the Act of Union 1800.
