South Kerry (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Kerry County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1922
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

South Kerry was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885-1922.

Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 the area was part of the Kerry constituency. Following the Anglo Irish Agreement and the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the area was no longer represented in the UK Parliament, since it was no longer part of the UK. The successor constituency in the new Dáil Éireann was Kerry-Limerick West first established under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to elect members to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland in 1921.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency comprised the southern part of County Kerry.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Years	Member	Party
1885-1887	John O'Connor	Irish Parliamentary Party
1887-1890	Denis Kilbride	Irish Parliamentary Party
1891-1895		Anti-Parnellite
1895-1900	Thomas Joseph Farrell	Anti-Parnellite
1900-1918	John Pius Boland	Irish Parliamentary Party
1918-1922	Finian Lynch	Sinn Féin

[edit] Elections

[edit] References

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)

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