Pembroke, a division of
County Dublin, was a
parliamentary county constituency in
Ireland. It returned one
Member of Parliament (MP) to the
House of Commons of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922.
Prior to the
1918 United Kingdom general election
The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday, 14 December 1918. The governing coalition, under Prime Minister David Lloyd George, sent ...
the area was part of the
South Dublin
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constituency, and extended west into territory formerly part of
North Dublin. From 1922, shortly before the establishment of the Irish Free State, it was not represented at Westminster.
History
Dublin Pembroke was created under the
Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918 following recommendations of the 1917 Boundary Commission, which increased the parliamentary representation of the administrative county of Dublin from two divisions to four. The
1918 general election was used by
Sinn Féin as an election to
Dáil Éireann
Dáil Éireann ( , ; ) is the lower house, and principal chamber, of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann (the upper house).Article 15.1.2º of the Constitution of Ireland read ...
.
Desmond FitzGerald sat as a member of the
First Dáil, abstaining from Westminster.
Under the
Government of Ireland Act 1920, the area was combined with
Dublin Rathmines,
North Dublin and
South Dublin
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as a 6-seat constituency for the
Southern Ireland House of Commons and a two-seat constituency at Westminster. At the
1921 election for the Southern Ireland House of Commons, the six seats were won uncontested by Sinn Féin, who treated it as part of the election to the
Second Dáil. Desmond FitzGerald was one of the six TDs for Dublin County. It was never used as a Westminster constituency; under s. 1(4) of the
Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922, no writ was to be issued "for a constituency in Ireland other than a constituency in Northern Ireland". Therefore, no vote was held in Dublin County at the
1922 United Kingdom general election
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party. ...
on 15 November 1922, shortly before the
Irish Free State left the
United Kingdom on 6 December 1922.
Boundaries
The Pembroke Division was defined as:
Members of Parliament
Elections
References
{{Dublin constituencies
Westminster constituencies in County Dublin (historic)
Dáil constituencies in County Dublin (historic)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1922