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

Born in Waterford, and educated at St. John's College, Waterford,^[1] Delahunty was chairman of the Waterford and Central Ireland Railway Company, and director of the Kilkenny Junction Railway Company.^[1]

Involved in local politics for some decades,^[1] he was elected at the 1868 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Waterford City.^[3] He later lost his seat in the 1874 general election, when both the city's seats were won by candidates of the Home Rule Party.^[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.^[7]^[8] An 1879 description described Delhunty as "a genial, warm-hearted Irishman who is generally liked in the House".^[9] He died in 1885, aged 76.

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1. ^¹²³{{cite book|url = https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseofc00unse/debrettshouseofc00unse_djvu.txt | publisher = Dean & Son | place= London | page= 66 | title = Debrett's House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench | date= 1872 | editor= Robert Henry Mair }}
2. ^{{rayment-hc|w|1|date=May 2014}}
3. ^¹{{cite book |year=1978 |editor1-last=Walker |editor1-first=Brian M. |title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801–1922 |series=A New History of Ireland |location=Dublin |publisher=Royal Irish Academy |publication-date= |page=318 |isbn=0901714127 |issn=0332-0286 }}
4. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 24409 | date = 26 January 1877 |page=369 }}
5. ^Walker, op. cit. page 319
6. ^{{cite book|last=Power|first=Patrick C.|title=History of Waterford: City and County|year=1990|publisher=Mercier Press|isbn=9780853429456|page=177}}
7. ^{{cite journal|last=Lucy|first=H. W.|date=July 1897|title=The Queen's Parliaments|journal=North American Review|volume=165|issue=488|pages=99–111: 104–5|url=http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nora;cc=nora;q1=Delahunty;rgn=full%20text;idno=nora0165-1;didno=nora0165-1;node=nora0165-1%3A12;view=image;seq=0110}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1878/mar/20/bill-56-second-reading|title=[BILL 56] SECOND READING|date=20 March 1878|work=HC Deb|publisher=Hansard|pages=vol 238 cc1699–706|accessdate=16 March 2016}}
9. ^{{cite news |url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160123283?searchTerm=James%20Delahunty%20waterford&searchLimits=l-decade=187# | publisher = Adelaide Observer | date = 9 August 1879 | title = Our Home Correspondence | via = Trove (National Library of Australia) |page = 17 |quote = "Mr. Delahunty [...], the member for Waterford is a genial, warm-hearted Irishman who is generally liked in the House, and a few friends [...] support [his bill] just out of good fellowship for its promoter"}}

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