James Delahunty

James Delahunty (1808 – 15 June 1885) was an Irish Liberal Party politician from Waterford.
He was elected at the 1868 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Waterford City, but was defeated at the 1874 general election, when both the city's seats were won by candidates of the Home Rule Party.
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. This time Delahunty was himself a Home Rule candidate, and he defeated his Liberal opponent by a margin of more than 3:1.
Delahunty "was laughed at because of the dullness of his oratory". In 1878 he caused amusement in the Commons by spreading on his bench sundry personal items taken from his bag in a long search for the notes for his speech on the Money Laws (Ireland) Bill.