Kerry-Limerick West (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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Kerry-Limerick West is a former Irish parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1921 to 1923. It returned 8 Teachtaí Dála (TDs) to the Dáil, using the using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).

The constituency was created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to elect members to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland and first used at the Irish elections, 1921 to return the Members of the 2nd Dáil. It succeeded a combined set of Kerry and Limerick UK Parliament constituencies such as Kerry South which were used to elect the Members of the 1st Dáil and earlier UK House of Commons members.

It was abolished under the Electoral Act 1923 and succeeded by the new Kerry constituency and the Limerick constituency, both of which were first used in the Irish general election, 1923 for the Members of the 4th Dáil.

Contents 1 Members of the 3rd Dáil 2 Members of the 2nd Dáil 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Members of the 3rd Dáil

Name		Party
	Piaras Béaslaí	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)
	Patrick Cahill	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)
	Con Collins	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)
	James Crowley	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)
	Finian Lynch	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)
	Thomas O'Donoghue	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)
	Edmund Roche	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)
	Austin Stack	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)

[edit] Members of the 2nd Dáil

Name		Party
	Piaras Béaslaí	Sinn Féin
	Patrick Cahill	Sinn Féin
	Con Collins	Sinn Féin
	James Crowley	Sinn Féin
	Finian Lynch	Sinn Féin
	Thomas O'Donoghue	Sinn Féin
	Edmund Roche	Sinn Féin
	Austin Stack	Sinn Féin

[edit] See also

• Government of Ireland Act 1920 (Parliamentary and Dáil constituencies)
• List of Dáil Éireann constituencies in Ireland (historic)

[edit] External links

• Oireachtas Members Database
• Acts of the Oireachtas

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