Dublin Harbour (UK Parliament constituency)

This constituency comprised part of the city of Dublin. It included Dublin Port and red light district of Dublin and was one of the poorest constituencies in Ireland.{{cite web |title=Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland): Parliamentary Borough of Dublin Map |url=https://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/22430/pages/631895 |website=Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland |publisher=DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland, Parliament, People and Migration |access-date=17 October 2022 |page=36 |archive-date=17 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017063815/https://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/22430/pages/631895 |url-status=live }}

From 1885 to 1918, it was defined as:{{cite web |title=Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 23) |url=https://archive.org/details/publicgeneralac01walegoog/page/n146/mode/1up |website=Archive.org |publisher=Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales |access-date=16 October 2022 |page=143}}

{{quote frame|Mountjoy Ward,

North Dock Ward,

Rotunda Ward (except so much as is comprised in College Green constituency),

so much of South Dock Ward and Trinity Wards as lies north of a line drawn along the centre of Great Brunswick Street,

the townlands of Ringsend and Irishtown, and so much of Beggar's Bush bounded on the north and west by the municipal boundary of North Dock and South Dock wards, on the west and south-west by a line drawn along the centres of Grand Canal Street and Shelbourne Road, on the south by a line drawn along the centre of Haig's Avenue, and on the east by Irishtown.}}

From 1918 to 1922, it was defined as:{{cite web |title=Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland) |url=https://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/22430/pages/631894 |website=Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland |publisher=DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland, Parliament, People and Migration |access-date=16 October 2022 |page=35 |archive-date=5 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005115913/https://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/22430/pages/631894 |url-status=live }}

{{quote frame|the North Dock Ward, those parts of South Dock and Trinity Wards which is not included in the St Stephen's Green Division, and that part of Mountjoy Ward, which lies to the east and south of a line drawn continuously along the middle of Great Britain Street, Summerhill, and Summerhill Parade to the middle of the North Wall Extension of the Midland and Great Western Railway, and thence in a south-easterly direction along the centre of the railway to the ward boundary.}}

Prior to the 1885 general election, the city was the undivided two-member Dublin City constituency. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Dublin was divided into four divisions: College Green, Dublin Harbour, St Stephen's Green and St Patrick's. Dublin Harbour was a very heavily Nationalist area. The Irish Parliamentary Party only lost political control of the constituency in 1918.

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, St James's and St Michan's.{{cite web |title=Redistribution of seats (Ireland) Act, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/representationof00grearich/page/176/mode/2up |access-date=1 October 2022}}

Sinn Féin used the 1918 general election to elect members of Dáil Éireann, inviting all those elected in Ireland to sit as a Teachta Dála (known in English as a Deputy) in the Dáil, although only the Sinn Féin members attended. Philip Shanahan, who had participated in the Easter Rising defeated the incumbent MP, Alfie Byrne, a formidable politician who would play a prominent role in Dublin and Irish politics for almost half a century. Shanahan sat as a member of the First Dáil.

Under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, the area was combined with the College Green Division to form Dublin Mid, a 4-seat constituency for the Southern Ireland House of Commons and a single constituency at Westminster.{{cite web |title=Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 67): Fifth Schedule |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/10-11/67/schedule/FIFTH/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=16 October 2022 |archive-date=28 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928115917/https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/10-11/67/schedule/FIFTH/enacted |url-status=live }} 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 Second Dáil. Philip Shanahan was one of the four TDs for Dublin Mid.

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".{{cite web |title=Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 4) |url=http://www.historicaldocuments.org.uk/documents/doc00005-001.html |website=Historical Documents |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315095335/http://www.historicaldocuments.org.uk/documents/doc00005-001.html |archive-date=15 March 2012 |url-status=dead}} Therefore, no vote was held in Dublin Mid at the 1922 United Kingdom general election on 15 November 1922, shortly before the Irish Free State left the United Kingdom on 6 December 1922.

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|title=1885 general election: Dublin Harbour{{cite book|editor1-last=Walker|editor1-first=B.M.|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922|date=1978|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|location=Dublin|isbn=0901714127|pages=345, 388}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Parliamentary Party

|candidate = Timothy Harrington

|votes = 6,717

|percentage = 80.5

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Rowland Blennerhassett

|votes = 1,628

|percentage = 19.5

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 5,089

|percentage = 61.0

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 8,345

|percentage = 74.0

|change =

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 11,282

}}

{{Election box new seat win|

|winner = Irish Parliamentary Party

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=1886 general election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|

|party = Irish Parliamentary Party

|candidate = Timothy Harrington

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Irish Parliamentary Party

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=1892 general election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish National League

|candidate = Timothy Harrington

|votes = 4,482

|percentage = 76.5

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Irish National Federation

|candidate = James McDonnell

|votes = 1,376

|percentage = 23.5

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 3,106

|percentage = 53.0

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 5,858

|percentage = 51.5

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 11,370

}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = Irish National League

|loser = Irish Parliamentary Party

|swing = N/A

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=1895 general election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|

|party = Irish National League

|candidate = Timothy Harrington

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Irish National League

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=1900 general election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|

|party = Irish Parliamentary Party

|candidate = Timothy Harrington

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Irish Parliamentary Party

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=1906 general election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Parliamentary Party

|candidate = Timothy Harrington

|votes = 3,638

|percentage = 80.7

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Liberal Unionist Party

|candidate = John Lincoln Mahon

|votes = 872

|percentage = 19.3

|change = New

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 2,766

|percentage = 61.4

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 4,510

|percentage =51.2

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 8,813

}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Irish Parliamentary Party

|swing = N/A

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=January 1910 general election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|

|party = Irish Parliamentary Party

|candidate = Timothy Harrington

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Irish Parliamentary Party

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=1910 by-election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|

|party = Irish Parliamentary Party

|candidate = William Abraham

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Irish Parliamentary Party

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=December 1910 general election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Parliamentary Party

|candidate = William Abraham

|votes = 3,244

|percentage = 83.7

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = All-for-Ireland League

|candidate = James Brady

|votes = 631

|percentage = 16.3

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 2,613

|percentage = 67.4

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 3,875

|percentage = 42.9

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 9,038

}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Irish Parliamentary Party

|swing = N/A

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=1915 by-election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Parliamentary Party

|candidate = Alfie Byrne

|votes = 2,208

|percentage = 58.14

|change = −25.6

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Healyite Nationalist

|candidate = Pierce O'Mahony

|votes = 913

|percentage = 24.04

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Nationalist Party (Ireland)

|candidate = John Joseph Farrell

|votes = 677

|percentage = 17.83

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 1,295

|percentage = 34.10

|change = −33.3

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 3,798

|percentage = 43.26

|change = +0.4

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 8,780

}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Irish Parliamentary Party

|swing = N/A

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin |

|title=1918 general election: Dublin Harbour}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Sinn Féin

|candidate = Philip Shanahan

|votes = 7,708

|percentage = 58.9

|change = New

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Irish Parliamentary Party

|candidate = Alfie Byrne

|votes = 5,386

|percentage = 41.1

|change = −42.6

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 2,322

|percentage = 17.8

|change = N/A

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 13,094

|percentage = 67.1

|change = +24.2

}}

{{Election box registered electors|

|reg. electors = 19,520

}}

{{Election box gain with party link|

|winner = Sinn Féin

|loser = Irish Parliamentary Party

|swing = N/A

}}

{{Election box end}}

• Historic Dáil constituencies

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922|editor-first=Brian M.|editor-last=Walker|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|year=1978|location=Dublin|isbn=0901714127}}
• {{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CSORP_1917_29520.pdf#page=37 |title=Report |author=Boundary Commission (Ireland) established in 1917 to redistribute seats in the House of Commons under the terms of the Representation of the People Bill, 1917 |volume=CSO/RP/1917/29520/36 |date=1917 |publisher=National Archives of Ireland |chapter=Schedule 10 : Parliamentary borough of Dublin |access-date=16 January 2018 |archive-date=4 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204164341/http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CSORP_1917_29520.pdf#page=37 |url-status=dead }}

• [https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/ Dáil Éireann Members Database] Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas
• [https://www.dublinhistoricmaps.ie/boundaries/parliamentary-constituencies/index.html Dublin Historic Maps: Parliamentary & Dail Constituencies 1780–1969 (a work in progress)]

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