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Life
1598-1668 [or Darcy]; MP for Navan in 1634; supreme council of Kilkenny Confederation from 1641, delegate to treaty with Ormond, 1646; His Argument delivered ... by the express order of the House of Commons (Waterford, 1643) against Poyning’s law pre-empted William Molyneux’s The Case Against Ireland’s being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, stated (1698) by fifty years and remained the linchpin of nationalist thought, no parliament but an Irish one can properly legislate for Ireland; maintained exclusive right of Irish parliament to legislate for Ireland, 1641. ODNB FDA
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Commentary
Joseph Th. Leerssen, Mere Irish and Fíor-Ghael (1986), Patrick Darcy’s An Argument delivered (1643; 2nd ed. Dublin 1764), written in support of the pro-Ormond faction in the Confederation, anticipates Molyneux’s Case. (Leerssen, p.343);
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References
Roy Foster, Modern Ireland (1988).
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