Dublin Harbour (UK Parliament constituency)

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Dublin Harbour
Former
borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Dublin Harbour constituency within Dublin, as it existed from 1885 to 1918.
1885–1922
Seats1
Created fromDublin
Replaced byDublin 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

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

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

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

Year MP[7] Party
1885 Timothy Harrington Irish Parliamentary
1891 Irish National League (Parnellite)
1897 Independent Nationalist
1900 Irish Parliamentary
1910 William Abraham Irish Parliamentary
1915 Alfie Byrne Irish Parliamentary
1918
 		Philip Shanahan Sinn Féin
1922 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

1885 general election: Dublin Harbour[8]
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)
1886 general election: Dublin Harbour[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary Timothy Harrington Unopposed
Irish Parliamentary hold

Elections in the 1890s

1892 general election: Dublin Harbour[8]
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
1895 general election: Dublin Harbour[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish National League Timothy Harrington Unopposed
Irish National League hold

Elections in the 1900s

1900 general election: Dublin Harbour[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary Timothy Harrington Unopposed
Irish Parliamentary hold
1906 general election: Dublin Harbour[8]
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

January 1910 general election: Dublin Harbour[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary Timothy Harrington Unopposed
Irish Parliamentary hold
1910 by-election: Dublin Harbour[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary William Abraham Unopposed
Irish Parliamentary hold
December 1910 general election: Dublin Harbour[8]
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
1915 by-election: Dublin Harbour[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Parliamentary Alfie Byrne 2,208 58.1 −25.6
Healyite Nationalist Pierce O'Mahony 913 24.0 N/A
Irish Nationalist John Joseph Farrell 677 17.8 N/A
Majority 1,295 34.1 −33.3
Turnout 3,798 43.3 +0.4
Registered electors 8,780
Irish Parliamentary hold Swing N/A
1918 general election: Dublin Harbour[8]
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

Notes, citations and sources

Citations

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Redistribution of seats (Ireland) Act, 1918". Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 4)". Historical Documents. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012.
  7. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
  8. ^
    ISBN 0901714127
    .

Sources

External links

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