Robert O’Neill has been elected MP for the constituency of Mid Antrim. The voting was as follows :- Total Poll :18,032 Robert William Hugh O’Neill (Unionist) : 10711 Joseph Connolly (Sinn Fein) : 2791Read More →
Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont is declared elected MP for Antrim East. The vote was as follows:- Total Poll : 24798 Robert McCalmont (Unionist) : 15206 William Agnew Moore (Unionist) : 7549 Charles McFerran Legg (Independent) : 1778 Daniel Dumigan (Sinn Féin) : 861Read More →
A force of police and military, acting on the orders of the Lord Lieutenant, raided the Ballina Herald today, and dismantled the printing press.Read More →
The Times of London comments on the general election yesterday :- When will people realize that Ireland is not a question of domestic politics only, but a permanent disturber of the compass in our foreign and colonial policy too?Read More →
Archbishop of Dublin, William Walsh, voted in the constituencies of Clontarf and North Dublin today. Given that, in both cases, he handed his polling card to the Sinn Féin election agents after casting his votes, he is believed to have voted for that party’s candidates : Richard Mulcahy and Frank Lawless. Cardinal Logue also voted Sinn Fein – casting his vote for Liam O’Brien in Mid Armagh – as part of the Nationalist voting pact that His Eminence had brokered in Ulster.Read More →
Sergeant McLoughlin, patrolling in Ballymohenry in Sligo , was shot and wounded today. He had been injured in the back from a shotgun blast¹.Read More →
William Cosgrave, the newly-elected MP for Kilkenny North, has issued a statement on his election, from Reading Prison, where he is currently incarcerated. The wire received on Dec. 6 announcing my unopposed return was the first news of any contest., and was entirely unexpected, as it was not generally thought here that there would be a walk-over. To me, personally, it is very gratifying but the honour lies with you all in Kilkenny, to all of whom you will kindly give my sincere thanks; also to the people in whom we have such confidence and of whose proud loyalty and of the cause of IrelandRead More →
A police and army raid on the “Galway Express” newspaper this morning, led by local District Inspector Hildebrand, has resulted in the closure of the newspaper and the dismantling of their printing press. There will be no election edition published today – the country edition has already printed last nightRead More →
Rival political supporters (Sinn Féin and National Party) clashed in Ballycastle, Co Mayo today , requiring baton charges by the police to quell the disturbances.Read More →
A police constable escaped injury when fired upon by Edward Corbett at Killeeneen Beg, near Craughwell. Corbett was sentenced to five years penal servitude today at a court martial in Dublin.Read More →
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