Cork City (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cork City Borough constituency
Created:	1801
Abolished:	1922
Type:	House of Commons

A former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament. It was the only constituency in Ireland to return the same number of members in each general election from the Union with Great Britain to the partition of Ireland.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Elections
4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of the Parliamentary borough of the City of Cork, which was part of County Cork.

[edit] Members of Parliament

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1801

Irish House of Commons members nominated to sit in House of Parliament at Westminster

1801, (1)John Hely-Hutchinson, later Earl of Donoughmore, 15 May 1757-29 June 1832, aged 75 (2) Mountifort Longfield (to 1818), 22 August 1746-8 June 1819, aged 72

1802, 8 January, Christopher Hely-Hutchinson, 5 April 1767-26 August 1826, aged 59

1806

1807

1812, 5 November, Sir Nicholas Conway Colthurst (to 1829), Jan 1789-22 June 1828, aged 40

1818, 13 July, Christopher Hely-Hutchinson, 5 April 1767-26 August 1826, aged 59

1820

1826, 29 December, John Hely-Hutchinson (to 1830), 1795-1842 aged 47

1829, 9 July, Gerard Callaghan, (unseated by petition) c1787-25 February 1833

1830, 29 March, Daniel Callaghan (Brother of Gerard Callaghan to January 1835), 1786-1849, aged 63 1830, 11 August, John Boyle, 13 March 1802-6 December 1874, aged 71

1831 REPRESENTATION INCREASED TO 2 MEMBERS 1832

1832, 21 December, Herbert Baldwin

1835, 17 January, (1) Joseph Leycester, 1784, (2) James Charles Chatterton, 1794-5 January 1874 aged 79 1835, 18 April, (1) Daniel Callaghan (to 1849), 1786-1849, aged 63, (2) Herbert Baldwin,

1837, 11 August, Francis Bernard Beamish, (Liberal), 1802-1 February 1868 aged 65

1841, 5 July, Francis Stack Murphy, 1807-1860 aged 53

1846, 31 January, Alexander McCarthy

1847, 9 August, William Trant Fagan (to 1851), 1801-16 May 1859, aged 57

1849, 14 November, James Charles Chatterton, (to 1852), 1792-5 January 1874, 81

1851, 23 April, Francis Stack Murphy, (to 1853), 1807-1860, aged 53

1852, 14 July, William Trant Fagan, (to 1859), 1801-16 May 1859, aged 57

1853, 20 August, Francis Bernard Beamish, Brewer, 1802-1 February 1868, aged 65

1859, 29 June, Francis Lyons, 1798-1862, aged 64

1862, 14 February, Nicholas Daniel Murphy (to 1880), 1811

1865, 12 July, John Francis Maguire (founder Cork Examiner), 1 November 1872

1872, 10 December, Joseph Philip Roynane, 1822-7 May 1876, aged 53

1874

1876, 29 May, William Goulding, 15 November 1617-8 December 1884, aged 67

1880, 10 April, (1) John Daly, 1834-August 1888, aged 54, (2) Charles Stewart Parnell (to 1891) formerly MP for Meath 21 April 1875-1880, 27 June 1846-6 October 1891, aged 45

                                 1882
Home Rule League/Nationalist Party becomes the Irish Parliamentary Party
                                 1884

1884, 23 February, John Deasy, Irish Parliamentary Party, 1856-24 February 1896, aged 41

1885, 28 November, Maurice Healy, Irish Parliamentary Party , member of 'Bantry Band' which included Irish Party MPs born or associated with Bantry and were his brother Tim Healy, T.D. Sullivan, Donal Sullivan and businessman William Martin Murphy, (to 1900), 3 January 1859-9 November 1923, aged 64

1886

1891, 6 November, Martin Flavin, 1841, (on death of Parnell), Irish Parliamentary Party.

1892, July, William O'Brien, (Irish Parliamentary Party) Anti-Parnellite, Journalist, 2 October 1852-25 February 1928, aged 75

1895, 27 June, James Francis Xavier O'Brien (to 1905), (Anti-Parnellite) 1831-23 May 1905, aged 73

1900, 4 October, William O'Brien (Irish Parliamentary Party), (to 1909), 1852-25 February 1928, aged 75

1905, 14 June, Michael Augustine Roche (Irish Parliamentary Party), (to Dec 1910), c 1856-7 December 1915

1909, December, Maurice Healy, (Irish Parliamentary Party) 3 January 1859-9 November 1923, aged 64

                                 1910(January)

1910, 18 January, William O'Brien (Irish Parliamentary Party/All for Ireland League (AFIL)), (to 1918), 1852-25 February 1928, aged 75

                                 1910(December)

1910(December)

1918, 14 December, (1) James Joseph Walsh, Sinn Féin, 1880-3 February 1948, aged 67, (2) Liam De Roiste Sinn Féin (elected by block voting system)

                                Sources

Sources: T.M. Healy by Frank Callanan Cork University Press 1996,

[edit] Elections

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1801 (no actual election), Tory 1802, Tory 1806, Whig 1807, Tory 1812, Tory 1818, Tory

1820, Tory 1826,Tory 1830,Whig 1831,Whig 1832,Whig 1835,Whig 1837,Whig 1841,Conservative 1847, Whig 1852, Conservative 1857, 17th. 1865 1868 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900, 27th. 1906 1910 January, 1910 December, 1918

[edit] References

The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978), Cork History and Society Patrick O'Flanagan/ Cornelius G. Buttimer Geography Publications 1993

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