County Waterford (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918-1922
County Waterford was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the British House of Commons.
Boundaries and boundary changes
This constituency comprised County Waterford, except for the parliamentary boroughs of Dungarvan (1801–1885) and Waterford City (1801–1885 and 1918–1922). It returned two Members of Parliament from 1801 to 1885 and one from 1918 to 1922.
It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.
Between 1885 and 1918 the area had been divided between the constituencies of East Waterford and West Waterford. From 1922 it was no longer represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Politics
In the 1918 election Sinn Féin defeated by 3 to 1 the Nationalist candidate J. J. O'Shee representing the Irish Parliamentary Party.
The newly elected Sinn Féin MP for the constituency was Cathal Brugha. Like other Sinn Féin MPs elected that year, he did not take his seat at Westminster but instead, took a seat in the revolutionary First Dáil which assembled in Dublin on 21 January 1919. As better known figures were under arrest, Brugha became the first presiding officer (with the title of Ceann Comhairle) and a day later the first head of government (with the title of President of Dáil Éireann), of the Irish Republic.
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