Dublin St Stephen's Green (UK Parliament Constituency)
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, was a
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in
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. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1885 until 1922 on the
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electoral system. From the dissolution of 1922, shortly before the establishment of the
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, the area was no longer represented in the UK Parliament.


Boundaries

This constituency was named for
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and comprised parts of the south-east of the city of
Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...
. From 1885 to 1918, it was defined as: From 1918 to 1922, it was defined as:


History

Prior to the 1885 general election, the city was the undivided two-member Dublin City constituency. Under the
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, Dublin was divided into four divisions: College Green, Dublin Harbour, St Stephen's Green, and St Patrick's. Under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, the city was allocated seven seats: in addition to the four existing constituencies, the new divisions were Clontarf,
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and St Michan's.
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used the 1918 general election to elect members of
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, inviting all those elected in Ireland to sit as a
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(known in English as a Deputy) in the Dáil rather than at Westminster, although only the Sinn Féin members attended. Thomas Kelly sat as a member of the
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. Under the
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, the area was combined with the St Patrick's Division to form Dublin South, a 4-seat constituency for the Southern Ireland House of Commons and a single constituency at Westminster. At the 1921 election for the Southern Ireland House of Commons, the four seats were won uncontested by Sinn Féin, who treated it as part of the election to the
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. Thomas Kelly was one of the four TDs for Dublin South. 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 South at the
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on 15 November 1922, shortly before the
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left the
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on 6 December 1922.


Members of Parliament


Elections


Elections in the 1910s


Elections in the 1900s

Death of McCann


Elections in the 1890s

Kenny appointed a Judge of the High Court Kenny appointed Solicitor-General


Elections in the 1880s

Death of Gray


Notes, citations and sources


Citations


Sources

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External links


Dáil Éireann Members Database
Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dublin Saint Stephen's Green UK Parliament constituency Westminster constituencies in County Dublin (historic) Dáil constituencies in County Dublin (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1922