Dublin College Green (UK Parliament constituency)

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College Green, a division of Dublin, was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Ireland.

Boundaries and boundary changes

This constituency comprised part of the city of Dublin. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons 1885-1922.

Prior to the general election of 1885, the city was the undivided two member Dublin City constituency. In 1885, Dublin was divided into four constituencies: the College Green, Dublin Harbour, Dublin St Patrick's and Dublin St Stephen's Green constituencies.

In 1918, the city was allocated seven seats: in addition to the four existing constituencies, the new divisions were Dublin Clontarf, Dublin St James's and Dublin St Michan's.

From the dissolution of 1922, the area was no longer represented in the UK Parliament.

Dáil Éireann 1918-1922

The constituency election in 1918 was used by Sinn Féin to return one Teachta Dála (TD) to serve in the Irish Republic's First Dáil. In republican theory, every MP elected in Ireland was a member of this revolutionary assembly. In practice, only the Sinn Féin members participated in it. The body assembled on 21 January 1919 and last met on 10 May 1921. The First Dáil, according to a resolution passed on 10 May 1921, was formally dissolved on the assembly of the Second Dáil. This took place on 16 August 1921.

In 1921, Sinn Féin decided to use the UK-authorised elections for the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland as a poll for the Irish Republic's Second Dáil. A new pattern of multi-member constituencies replaced the old single-member seats. The city of Dublin was divided into three four-member seats: Dublin Mid-West, Dublin North-West and Dublin South.

This division seems to have been incorporated in the Dublin Mid-West seat, as the TD was re-elected there.

Politics

This was a strongly Nationalist area, which moved after the 1916 Easter Rising to supporting Sinn Féin. In the 1918 election, Sinn Féin got more than three quarters of the vote.

As with the other Sinn Féin MPs, O'Kelly did not take his seat at Westminster but instead served in the revolutionary Dáil Éireann.

He was the presiding officer of the First Dáil (with the title Ceann Comhairle) from 22 January 1919. His appointment as Ceann Comhairle was confirmed 1 April 1919.

Members of Parliament

Key to parties: APN Anti-Parnellite Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party), Ind N Independent Nationalist, Ind N-H Independent Nationalist (supporter of Timothy Healy), L Liberal Party, Lab Irish Labour Party, N Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party), PN Parnellite Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party), SF Sinn Féin, U Unionist.

From	To	Name (Party)	Born	Died
1885	1892	Timothy Daniel Sullivan (N)	1827	31 March 1914
1892	1896	Dr Joseph Edward Kenny (PN)	1845	9 April 1900
1896	1900	James Laurence Carew (PN)	1853	31 August 1903
1900	1915	Joseph Patrick Nannetti (N)	1851	26 April 1915
1915	1918	John Dillon Nugent (N)	1869	1 March 1940
1918	1922	Sean Thomas O'Kelly (SF)	25 August 1883	23 November 1966

Elections

Elections to fill a single seat, were conducted using the first past the post system.

1885 (30 November) general election
10,797 electors; 8,066 voted; turnout 74.71%
Timothy Daniel Sullivan (N) 6,548 (81.18%)
David Sherlock (L) 1,518 (18.82%)
majority 5,030 (62.36%)
1886 (1 July) general election
Timothy Daniel Sullivan (N): Unopposed
1892 (7 July) general election
6,781 electors; 5,125 voted; turnout 75.58%
Dr Joseph Edward Kenny (PN) 2,568 (50.11%)
Sir Henry Cochrane (U) 1,441 (28.12%)
Timothy Daniel Sullivan (APN) 1,116 (21.78%)
majority 1,127 (21.99%)
1895 (12 July) general election
Dr Joseph Edward Kenny (PN): Unopposed
Kenny resigned
1896 (6 April) by-election
James Laurence Carew (PN): Unopposed
1900 (3 October) general election
10,223 electors; 4,640 voted; turnout 45.39%
Joseph Patrick Nannetti (N) 2,467 (53.17%)
James Laurence Carew (Ind N-H) 2,173 (46.83%)
majority 294 (6.34%)
1906 (13 January) general election
Joseph Patrick Nannetti (N): Unopposed
1910 (19 January) general election
8,739 electors; 5,798 voted; turnout 66.35%
Joseph Patrick Nannetti (N) 4,559 (78.63%)
George Bernard O'Connor (U) 1,239 (21.37%)
majority 3,320 (57.26%)
1910 (3 December) general election
Joseph Patrick Nannetti (N): Unopposed
Nannetti died
1915 (11 June) by-election
8,167 electors; 4,261 voted; turnout 52.17%
John Dillon Nugent (N) 2,445 (57.38%)
Thomas Farren (Lab) 1,816 (42.62%)
majority 629 (14.76%)
1918 (14 December) general election
21,414 electors; 12,515 voted; turnout 58.44%
Sean Thomas O'Kelly (SF) 9,662 (77.20%)
Joseph Coghlan Briscoe (Ind N) 2,853 (22.80%)
majority 6,809 (54.41%)

Reference

Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)

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