James Delahunty

James Delahunty (24 July 1808 – 15 June 1885)[1][2] was an Irish Liberal Party politician from Waterford.

[3] He returned to the House of Commons three years later, when he was elected at a by-election in January 1877 as MP for County Waterford following the death of Sir John Esmonde, Bt.

[4] This time Delahunty was himself a Home Rule candidate, and he defeated his Liberal opponent by a margin of more than 3:1.

[5] Delahunty "was laughed at because of the dullness of his oratory",[6] and in 1878 caused some amusement in the Commons by spreading on his bench sundry personal items taken from his bag in a search for the notes for his speech on the Money Laws (Ireland) Bill.

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