June 7, 1705
Francis Flood, grandfather of the later prominent statesman Henry Flood, is expelled from the Irish House of Commons for abuses committed against Agmondisham Cuffe, MP, as well as Cuffe’s tenants and others in County Kilkenny.
The incident reflects the tensions between rival political families and the volatile nature of 18th-century Irish parliamentary politics, where personal and local disputes often spilled into national affairs.