Scope and Content Note
The debates of Ireland Parliament House of Commons span the years 1776-1789. The material consists of verbatim shorthand reports of proceedings and parliamentary debates in the Irish parliament's lower house, together with longhand transcripts, made by or for Sir Henry Cavendish. The verbatim reports are contained in a series of forty-five volumes numbered 1 to 54 (reports numbered 3, 12, 14, 30-32, 46, and 51-52 were not received by the Library), while the transcripts are consecutively numbered 1 to 37.