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Dublin Harbour
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Dublin Harbour constituency within Dublin, as it existed from 1885 to 1918.
1885–1922
Number of members	1
Created from	Dublin

Dublin Harbour, a division of Dublin, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1922.

Prior to the 1885 general election, the city was the undivided two member Dublin City constituency. In 1885, Dublin was divided into four constituencies: the Harbour, Dublin College Green, Dublin St Patrick's and Dublin St Stephen's Green constituencies.

In 1918, the city was allocated seven seats: in addition to the four existing constituencies, the new divisions were Dublin Clontarf, Dublin St James's and Dublin St Michan's.

From the dissolution of 1922, the area was no longer represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised part of the city of Dublin. It included the port and red light district of Dublin and was one of the poorest constituencies in Ireland.

1885-1918: In the borough of Dublin, the Mountjoy and North Dock wards, that part of Rotunda ward not contained in the College Green constituency, those parts of South Dock and Trinity wards lying north of a line drawn along the centre of Great Brunswick Street, the townlands of Ringsend and Irishtown, and that part of the townland of Beggar's Bush bounded on the north and west by the 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.

1918-1922: In the County Borough of Dublin, the North Dock Ward, those parts of South Dock and Trinity wards lying north of a line drawn along the centre of Great Brunswick Street, and that part of Mountjoy ward lying south of a line drawn along the centres 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.

In 1921, for the elections to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, Dublin was divided into three multi-member constituencies. This constituency became part of Dublin Mid.

Politics

Dublin Harbour was a very heavily Nationalist area. The Irish Parliamentary Party only lost political control of the district following the Easter Rising in 1916. The area was a hotbed of Sinn Féin and Irish Republican Army activity. Local publican Phil Shanahan, who had participated in the Easter Rising, was elected in 1918. The man he defeated, the incumbent UK Member of Parliament Alfie Byrne, was a formidable politician. Byrne was successful in Dublin and Irish politics for almost half a century. The fact that Shanahan could beat him demonstrates how strongly the constituency was attracted by Sinn Féin's ideas.

In common with other Sinn Féiners elected in 1918, Shanahan did not take his seat at Westminster but instead participated in the revolutionary Dáil Éireann.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

See also

• Historic Dáil constituencies


• Irish general election, 1918

References

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


• 
  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 (1917). "Schedule 10 : Parliamentary borough of Dublin" (PDF). Report (PDF)|format= requires |url= (help). CSO/RP/1917/29520/36. National Archives of Ireland.
  


• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)

External links

• http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0


• http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/acts.html