Dublin St Stephen's Green (UK Parliament constituency)

Dublin St Stephen's Green
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1922 (1922)
Number of members	one
Created from	Dublin

St Stephen's Green, a division of Dublin, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons 1885–1922.

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

Boundaries

This constituency comprised part of the city of Dublin.

Politics

Dublin St Stephen's Green gave Sinn Féin almost two-thirds of its votes. The minority was fairly evenly divided between the Irish Parliamentary Party and the Unionists.

In common with other Sinn Féiners, elected in 1918, the Deputy did not take his seat at Westminster but instead participated in the revolutionary Dáil Éireann.

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), Lab Irish Labour Party, N Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party), PN Parnellite Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party), SF Sinn Féin, U Unionist, LU Liberal Unionist, L Liberal Party.

From	To	Name (Party)	Born	Died
1885	1888	Edmund Dwyer Gray (N)	1845	27 March 1888
1888	1892	Thomas Alexander Dickson (L)	1833	17 June 1909
1892	1898	William Kenny (LU)	14 January 1846	4 February 1921
1898	1900	James Henry Mussen Campbell (U)	4 April 1851	22 March 1931
1900	1904	James McCann (N)	1840	14 February 1904
1904	1910	Laurence Ambrose Waldron (N)	14 November 1858	27 December 1923
1910	1918	Patrick Joseph Brady (N)	1868	20 May 1943
1918	1922	Thomas Kelly (SF)	13 September 1868	20 April 1942

Elections

This constituency elected its MP using the first past the post electoral system.

• 1918 (14 December) general election
• 19,759 electors; 14,118 voted; turnout 71.45%
• Thomas Kelly (SF) 8,461 (59.93%)
• Patrick Joseph Brady (N) 2,902 (20.56%)
• Henry Hanna (U) 2,755 (19.51%)
• Majority 5,559 (39.38%)

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References

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)

See also

• List of Dáil Éireann constituencies in Ireland (historic)
• Irish (UK) general election, 1918

External links

• Dáil Éireann Members Database Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas
• http://acts.oireachtas.ie/ Achtanna an Oireachtas, Acts of the Oireachtas] Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas