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Rathmines, a division of County Dublin based on the suburb of Rathmines, was a parliamentary 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.

Dublin Rathmines
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1922
Replaced byDublin County
Created fromDublin South

Before the 1918 general election the area was the northern part of the South Dublin constituency, extended a bit west into territory formerly part of North Dublin. From 1922 it was not represented in the British Parliament.


History


Dublin Rathmines 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.[1] The 1918 general election was used by Sinn Féin as an election to the First Dáil.

Under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, the area was combined with Dublin Pembroke, North Dublin and South Dublin as a 6-seat constituency for the Southern Ireland House of Commons and a two-seat constituency at Westminster.[2] 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. 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".[3] Therefore, no vote was held in Dublin County 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.


Boundaries


Map of the constituency within Dublin County.
Map of the constituency within Dublin County.

The Rathmines Division was defined as:[4]

the urban district of Rathmines and Rathgar, and the part of the rural district of South Dublin which consists of the district electoral division of Terenure.

It was a section south of the city of Dublin, extending west into the middle of the county. The constituency was bounded by the city of Dublin to the north, North Dublin to the west, the Pembroke division of County Dublin to the south.[5]


Members of Parliament


ElectionMember[6]Party
1918 Maurice Dockrell Irish Unionist
1922 constituency abolished

Elections


General Election 14 December 1918: Dublin County, Rathmines[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Irish Unionist Maurice Dockrell 7,400 50.2
Sinn Féin Patrick Little 5,566 37.7
Irish Nationalist George Aloysius Moonan 1,780 12.1
Majority 1,834 12.5
Turnout 14,746 78.3
Irish Unionist win (new seat)

References


  1. "Redistribution of seats (Ireland) Act, 1918". Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  2. "Government of Ireland Act 1920: Fifth Schedule". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  3. "Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 4)". Historical Documents. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012.
  4. "Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland)". Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland, Parliament, People and Migration. p. 17. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  5. "Report of the Boundary Commission (Ireland): Map". Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. DIPPAM: Documenting Ireland, Parliament, People and Migration. p. 18. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  6. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)
  7. Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127.





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