The 1915 Dublin College Green by-election was held on 11 June 1915. The

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP,

Joseph Nannetti Joseph Patrick Nannetti (19 March 1851 – 26 April 1915) was an Irish nationalist Home rule politician, trade union leader, and as Irish Parliamentary Party member and Member of Parliament (MP) represented the constituency of College Green, Du ...

. It was won by the Irish Parliamentary candidate

John Dillon Nugent __NOTOC__ John Dillon Nugent (22 December 1869 – 1 March 1940) was an Irish nationalist politician, insurance representative and company director. He was born at Keady, County Armagh, the son of grocer John Nugent and Sarah Dillon. He was educ ...

. Nannetti had represented an older school of trade unionism, based on skilled workmen and emphasising shared interest between workmen and employer, which was challenged by the rise of Larkinism mass unionism. With the appearance of an independent Labour candidate in the subsequent by-election it was seen as significant in the drift of labour workers away from the Irish Party.Maume, Patrick; ''The long Gestation, Irish Nationalist Life 1891-1918'', pp 32, 116, 141, 237 Who’s Who, Gill & Macmillan (1999),

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