Michael Staines has been elected MP for the constituency of Dublin (St Michan’s). The voting was as follows :- Total Poll : 17,642 votes Michael Staines (Sinn Fein) : 7,553 votes John Nugent (Irish Party) : 3,996 votesRead More →
Image from the National Library of Ireland Collection on Flickr. Desmond Fitzgerald (Sinn Fein) has been elected as MP for Dublin Pembroke. The vote tally was :- Total Electorate :- 17,698 Desmond Fitzgerald (Sinn Fein) : – 6,114 John D Good (Unionist) :- 4,138 Charles Paul O’Neill (Irish Party) :- 2,629Read 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 →
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 →
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