William Lindsay has been elected as MP for the constituency of Belfast (Cromac). The voting was as follows :- Total Poll : 21,673 William Arthur Lindsay (Unionist) : 11,459 James Freeland (LRC) :2,508 Archibald Savage (Sinn Fein) :997Read More →
Patrick Donnelly has been elected as MP for the constituency of Armagh South. The voting was as follows :- Total Poll :15,905 Patrick J Donnelly (National Party) : 4,345 James Thomas McKee (Sinn Fein) : 79 (part of election pact between Irish Party and Sinn Fein).Read More →
John Lonsdale has been returned as MP for the constituency of Mid Armagh. The voting was as follows :- Total Poll : 17,339 John Rolston Lonsdale (Unionist) : 8,431 Liam O’Brien (Sinn Fein) : 5,689Read More →
Charles Craig has been returned as MP for the constituency of Antrim South. The voting was as follows :- Total Poll : 23,235 Charles Curtis Craig (Unionist) :13,270 Kevin Roantree O’Shiel (Sinn Fein) :2,318Read More →
Peter Kerr Kerr-Smiley (pictured here) has been returned as MP for the constituency of Antrim North. The voting was as follows :- Total Poll : 19110 Peter Kerr Kerr-Smiley (Unionist) : 9621 Patrick McCarry (Sinn Fein) : 2673Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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