Dublin Harbour (UK Parliament constituency)
| Dublin Harbour | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
 Dublin Harbour constituency within Dublin, as it existed from 1885 to 1918. | |
| 1885–1922 | |
| Seats | 1 |
| Created from | Dublin |
| Replaced by | Dublin Mid |
Dublin Harbour, a division of Dublin, was a borough parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1922. From 1918 to 1921, it was also used as a constituency for Dáil Éireann.
Boundaries
[edit]This constituency comprised part of the city of Dublin. It included Dublin Port and red light district of Dublin and was one of the poorest constituencies in Ireland.[1]
From 1885 to 1918, it was defined as:[2]
Mountjoy Ward,North Dock Ward, Rotunda Ward (except so much as is comprised in College Green constituency), so much of South Dock Ward and Trinity Wards as lies north of a line drawn along the centre of Great Brunswick Street,
the townlands of Ringsend and Irishtown, and so much of Beggar's Bush bounded on the north and west by the municipal boundary of North Dock and South Dock wards, on the west and south-west by a line drawn along the centres of Grand Canal Street and Shelbourne Road, on the south by a line drawn along the centre of Haig's Avenue, and on the east by Irishtown.
From 1918 to 1922, it was defined as:[3]
the North Dock Ward, those parts of South Dock and Trinity Wards which is not included in the St Stephen's Green Division, and that part of Mountjoy Ward, which lies to the east and south of a line drawn continuously along the middle of Great Britain Street, Summerhill, and Summerhill Parade to the middle of the North Wall Extension of the Midland and Great Western Railway, and thence in a south-easterly direction along the centre of the railway to the ward boundary.
History
[edit]Prior to the 1885 general election, the city was the undivided two-member Dublin City constituency. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Dublin was divided into four divisions: College Green, Dublin Harbour, St Stephen's Green and St Patrick's. Dublin Harbour was a very heavily Nationalist area. The Irish Parliamentary Party only lost political control of the constituency in 1918.
Under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, the city was allocated seven seats: in addition to the four existing constituencies, the new divisions were Clontarf, St James's and St Michan's.[4]
Sinn Féin used the 1918 general election to elect members of Dáil Éireann, inviting all those elected in Ireland to sit as a Teachta Dála (known in English as a Deputy) in the Dáil, although only the Sinn Féin members attended. Philip Shanahan, who had participated in the Easter Rising defeated the incumbent MP, Alfie Byrne, a formidable politician who would play a prominent role in Dublin and Irish politics for almost half a century. Shanahan sat as a member of the First Dáil.
Under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, the area was combined with the College Green Division to form Dublin Mid, a 4-seat constituency for the Southern Ireland House of Commons and a single constituency at Westminster.[5] At the 1921 election for the Southern Ireland House of Commons, the four seats were won uncontested by Sinn Féin, who treated it as part of the election to the Second Dáil. Philip Shanahan was one of the four TDs for Dublin Mid.
Under s. 1(4) of the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922, no writ was to be issued "for a constituency in Ireland other than a constituency in Northern Ireland".[6] Therefore, no vote was held in Dublin Mid at the 1922 United Kingdom general election on 15 November 1922, shortly before the Irish Free State left the United Kingdom on 6 December 1922.
Members of Parliament
[edit]| Year | MP[7] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Timothy Harrington | Irish Parliamentary | |
| 1891 | Irish National League (Parnellite) | ||
| 1897 | Ind. Nationalist | ||
| 1900 | Irish Parliamentary | ||
| 1910 | William Abraham | Irish Parliamentary | |
| 1915 | Alfie Byrne | Irish Parliamentary | |
| 1918 | Philip Shanahan | Sinn Féin | |
| 1922 | constituency abolished | ||
Elections
[edit]Elections in the 1880s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Timothy Harrington | 6,717 | 80.5 | ||
| Liberal | Rowland Blennerhassett | 1,628 | 19.5 | ||
| Majority | 5,089 | 61.0 | |||
| Turnout | 8,345 | 74.0 | |||
| Registered electors | 11,282 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Timothy Harrington | Unopposed | |||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | |||||
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish National League | Timothy Harrington | 4,482 | 76.5 | N/A | |
| Irish National Federation | James McDonnell | 1,376 | 23.5 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,106 | 53.0 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 5,858 | 51.5 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 11,370 | ||||
| Irish National League gain from Irish Parliamentary | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish National League | Timothy Harrington | Unopposed | |||
| Irish National League hold | |||||
Elections in the 1900s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Timothy Harrington | Unopposed | |||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Timothy Harrington | 3,638 | 80.7 | N/A | |
| Liberal Unionist | John Lincoln Mahon | 872 | 19.3 | New | |
| Majority | 2,766 | 61.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 4,510 | 51.2 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 8,813 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Timothy Harrington | Unopposed | |||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | William Abraham | Unopposed | |||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | William Abraham | 3,244 | 83.7 | N/A | |
| All-for-Ireland | James Brady | 631 | 16.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 2,613 | 67.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 3,875 | 42.9 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 9,038 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Parliamentary | Alfie Byrne | 2,208 | 58.14 | −25.6 | |
| Healyite Nationalist | Pierce O'Mahony | 913 | 24.04 | N/A | |
| Irish Nationalist | John Joseph Farrell | 677 | 17.83 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,295 | 34.10 | −33.3 | ||
| Turnout | 3,798 | 43.26 | +0.4 | ||
| Registered electors | 8,780 | ||||
| Irish Parliamentary hold | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinn Féin | Philip Shanahan | 7,708 | 58.9 | New | |
| Irish Parliamentary | Alfie Byrne | 5,386 | 41.1 | −42.6 | |
| Majority | 2,322 | 17.8 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 13,094 | 67.1 | +24.2 | ||
| Registered electors | 19,520 | ||||
| Sinn Féin gain from Irish Parliamentary | Swing | N/A | |||
See also
[edit]Notes, citations and sources
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ "Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland): Parliamentary Borough of Dublin Map". Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland, Parliament, People and Migration. p. 36. Archived from the original on 17 October 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- ^ "Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 23)". Archive.org. Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. p. 143. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ "Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland)". Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland, Parliament, People and Migration. p. 35. Archived from the original on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ "Redistribution of seats (Ireland) Act, 1918". Retrieved 1 October 2022.
- ^ "Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 67): Fifth Schedule". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ "Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 4)". Historical Documents. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 345, 388. ISBN 0901714127.
Sources
[edit]- Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.
- Boundary Commission (Ireland) established in 1917 to redistribute seats in the House of Commons under the terms of the Representation of the People Bill, 1917 (1917). "Schedule 10 : Parliamentary borough of Dublin" (PDF). Report. Vol. CSO/RP/1917/29520/36. National Archives of Ireland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
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External links
[edit]- Dáil Éireann Members Database Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas
- Dublin Historic Maps: Parliamentary & Dail Constituencies 1780–1969 (a work in progress)