Augustine Roche (1849[1] – 7 December 1915)[2] was an Irish Parliamentary Party politician from Cork.
During his year in office as Sheriff, he visited Berlin to present to the Berlin Rowing club a silver cup subscribed for by the citizens of Cork as a recognition of their performance in an international competition held in Cork earlier that year.
[4] He first stood for election to the United Kingdom House of Commons as a Parnellite candidate at a by-election in June 1895 for Cork City constituency, where William O'Brien MP had resigned his seat.
[5] He was narrowly defeated in the by-election by the Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation candidate J. F. X. O'Brien,[5] and lost again at the general election in July 1895, when both of Cork City's two seats were won by Anti-Parnellites.
[6] After that second defeat, he did not stand again until J. F. X. O'Brien died in May 1905, and at the resulting by-election on 14 June he was returned unopposed for the Irish Parliamentary Party,[7] the two sides having reunited in 1900.