Members of the 2nd Dáil

TDs from 1921 to 1922

2nd Dáil

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Overview
Legislative body| Dáil Éireann
Jurisdiction|

* Irish Republic
* Southern Ireland

Meeting place|

* Royal College of Surgeons
* Mansion House
* UCD (Earlsfort Terrace)

Term| 16 August 1921 – 8 June 1922
Election| 1921 general election
Government|

* 3rd Dáil ministry (Aug. 1921–Jan. 1922)
* 4th Dáil ministry (Jan.–Sep. 1922)

Members| 128
Ceann Comhairle| Eoin MacNeill
President of Dáil Éireann| Arthur Griffith
from 10 January 1922 until 12 August 1922
— Éamon de Valera
until 26 August 1921
President of the
Irish Republic| Éamon de Valera
from 26 August 1921 until 9 January 1922
Chairman of the Provisional Government| W. T. Cosgrave
— Michael Collins
from 16 January 1922 until 22 August 1922
Sessions
| 1st| 16 August 1921 – 14 September 1921

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2nd| 14 December 1921 – 8 June 1922

There were two elections in Ireland on 24 May 1921, following the establishment of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. New constituencies were established for both parliaments. A resolution of Dáil Éireann on 10 May 1921 held that these elections were to be regarded as elections to Dáil Éireann and that all those returned at these elections be regarded as members of Dáil Éireann.[1] According to this theory of Irish republicanism, these elections provided the membership of the Second Dáil. The Second Dáil lasted 296 days.

In the election to the area designated as Northern Ireland, 52 members were elected from 9 geographic constituencies and Queen's University of Belfast. The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) won 40 seats, while Sinn Féin and the Nationalist Party (the successor to the Irish Parliamentary Party) won six seats each; 5 of those elected for Sinn Féin were also elected for constituencies in Southern Ireland, while Nationalist Party leader Joseph Devlin was elected to two seats in Northern Ireland. On 7 June Sir James Craig, leader of the UUP, became the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

In the election to the area designated as Southern Ireland, 124 Sinn Féin candidates were returned unopposed from 26 geographic constituencies and the National University constituency.[2] The Dublin University constituency returned four Independent Unionist candidates, also unopposed. The four Independent Unionists met as the House of Commons of Southern Ireland on 28 June 1921, for one meeting only.

Those elected for Sinn Féin sat as the Second Dáil, calling themselves Teachtaí Dála (TDs). There were 125 TDs, taking into account that five represented two constituencies. The others elected did not respond to the invitation. Although the contemporaneous roll of Dáil membership included all those elected in both Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, the database of Oireachtas members includes only those elected for Sinn Féin.[3] For clarity on the representation of constituencies, they are listed here in a single list.

It was during the 2nd Dáil that the Anglo-Irish Treaty was debated, and it was approved in a Dáil vote on 7 January 1922.[4]

## Election result

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1921 Northern Ireland general election  | Party  | Seats

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| Ulster Unionist Party | 40
| Sinn Féin | 6
| Nationalist Party (NI) | 6
1921 Southern Ireland general election  | Party | Seats

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| Sinn Féin | 124
| Independent Unionist | 4

## Members by constituency

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Only those elected for Sinn Féin chose to sit as TDs in the Second Dáil.

Members of the 2nd Dáil[5]

Constituency  | Name  | Party
Antrim | Milne Barbour |  |  UUP
Robert Crawford |  |  UUP
Joseph Devlin[a] |  |  Nationalist
John Fawcett Gordon |  |  UUP
George Hanna |  |  UUP
Robert Megaw |  |  UUP
Hugh O'Neill |  |  UUP
Armagh | Richard Best |  |  UUP
Michael Collins[b] |  |  Sinn Féin
John Dillon Nugent |  |  Nationalist
David Graham Shillington |  |  UUP
Belfast East | Dawson Bates |  |  UUP
Herbert Dixon |  |  UUP
Thompson Donald |  |  UUP
James Augustine Duff |  |  UUP
Belfast North | Lloyd Campbell |  |  UUP
William Grant |  |  UUP
Samuel McGuffin |  |  UUP
Robert McKeown |  |  UUP
Belfast South | Crawford McCullagh |  |  UUP
Julia McMordie |  |  UUP
Thomas Moles |  |  UUP
Hugh MacDowell Pollock |  |  UUP
Belfast West | Thomas Henry Burn |  |  UUP
Joseph Devlin[a] |  |  Nationalist
Robert Lynn |  |  UUP
William J. Twaddell |  |  UUP
Carlow–Kilkenny | Edward Aylward |  |  Sinn Féin
W. T. Cosgrave |  |  Sinn Féin
James Lennon |  |  Sinn Féin
Gearóid O'Sullivan |  |  Sinn Féin
Cavan | Arthur Griffith[c] |  |  Sinn Féin
Paul Galligan |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán Milroy[d] |  |  Sinn Féin
Clare | Brian O'Higgins |  |  Sinn Féin
Éamon de Valera[e] |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán Liddy |  |  Sinn Féin
Patrick Brennan |  |  Sinn Féin
Cork Borough | J. J. Walsh |  |  Sinn Féin
Liam de Róiste |  |  Sinn Féin
Mary MacSwiney |  |  Sinn Féin
Donal O'Callaghan |  |  Sinn Féin
Cork East and North–East | David Kent |  |  Sinn Féin
Thomas Hunter |  |  Sinn Féin
Séamus Fitzgerald |  |  Sinn Féin
Cork Mid, North, South,
South East and West | Seán MacSwiney |  |  Sinn Féin
Patrick O'Keeffe |  |  Sinn Féin
Michael Collins[b] |  |  Sinn Féin
Daniel Corkery |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán Hales |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán Hayes |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán Moylan |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán Nolan |  |  Sinn Féin
Donegal | Joseph O'Doherty |  |  Sinn Féin
Peter J. Ward |  |  Sinn Féin
Joseph Sweeney |  |  Sinn Féin
Patrick McGoldrick |  |  Sinn Féin
Joseph McGinley |  |  Sinn Féin
Samuel O'Flaherty |  |  Sinn Féin
Down | J. M. Andrews |  |  UUP
James Craig |  |  UUP
Éamon de Valera[e] |  |  Sinn Féin
Thomas Lavery |  |  UUP
Robert McBride |  |  UUP
Thomas McMullan |  |  UUP
Harry Mulholland |  |  UUP
Patrick O'Neill |  |  Nationalist
Dublin South | Constance Markievicz |  |  Sinn Féin
Thomas Kelly |  |  Sinn Féin
Daniel McCarthy |  |  Sinn Féin
Cathal Ó Murchadha |  |  Sinn Féin
Dublin County | Michael Derham |  |  Sinn Féin
George Gavan Duffy |  |  Sinn Féin
Séamus Dwyer |  |  Sinn Féin
Desmond FitzGerald |  |  Sinn Féin
Frank Lawless |  |  Sinn Féin
Margaret Pearse |  |  Sinn Féin
Dublin Mid | Seán T. O'Kelly |  |  Sinn Féin
Philip Shanahan |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán McGarry |  |  Sinn Féin
Kathleen Clarke |  |  Sinn Féin
Dublin North-West | Joseph McGrath |  |  Sinn Féin
Michael Staines |  |  Sinn Féin
Philip Cosgrave |  |  Sinn Féin
Richard Mulcahy |  |  Sinn Féin
Dublin University | Ernest Alton |  |  Ind. Unionist
James Craig |  |  Ind. Unionist
Gerald Fitzgibbon |  |  Ind. Unionist
William Thrift |  |  Ind. Unionist
Fermanagh and Tyrone | Edward Archdale |  |  UUP
James Cooper |  |  UUP
William Coote |  |  UUP
Arthur Griffith[c] |  |  Sinn Féin
Thomas Harbison |  |  Nationalist
William Thomas Miller |  |  UUP
Seán Milroy[d] |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán O'Mahony |  |  Sinn Féin
Galway | Pádraic Ó Máille |  |  Sinn Féin
Liam Mellows |  |  Sinn Féin
Bryan Cusack |  |  Sinn Féin
Frank Fahy |  |  Sinn Féin
Patrick Hogan |  |  Sinn Féin
George Nicolls |  |  Sinn Féin
Joseph Whelehan |  |  Sinn Féin
Kerry–Limerick West | Piaras Béaslaí |  |  Sinn Féin
Fionán Lynch |  |  Sinn Féin
Austin Stack |  |  Sinn Féin
Patrick Cahill |  |  Sinn Féin
Con Collins |  |  Sinn Féin
James Crowley |  |  Sinn Féin
Thomas O'Donoghue |  |  Sinn Féin
Edmund Roche |  |  Sinn Féin
Kildare–Wicklow | Domhnall Ua Buachalla |  |  Sinn Féin
Robert Barton |  |  Sinn Féin
Christopher Byrne |  |  Sinn Féin
Art O'Connor |  |  Sinn Féin
Erskine Childers |  |  Sinn Féin
Leitrim–Roscommon North | Thomas Carter |  |  Sinn Féin
James Dolan |  |  Sinn Féin
Andrew Lavin |  |  Sinn Féin
George Noble Plunkett |  |  Sinn Féin
Leix–Offaly | Patrick McCartan |  |  Sinn Féin
Joseph Lynch |  |  Sinn Féin
Francis Bulfin |  |  Sinn Féin
Kevin O'Higgins |  |  Sinn Féin
Limerick City–Limerick East | Michael Colivet |  |  Sinn Féin
Richard Hayes |  |  Sinn Féin
William Hayes |  |  Sinn Féin
Kathleen O'Callaghan |  |  Sinn Féin
Londonderry | Robert Newton Anderson |  |  UUP
Dehra Chichester |  |  UUP
George Leeke |  |  Nationalist
Eoin MacNeill[f] |  |  Sinn Féin
John Martin Mark |  |  UUP
Longford–Westmeath | Joseph McGuinness |  |  Sinn Féin
Lorcan Robbins |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán Mac Eoin |  |  Sinn Féin
Laurence Ginnell |  |  Sinn Féin
Louth–Meath | John J. O'Kelly |  |  Sinn Féin
James Murphy |  |  Sinn Féin
Justin McKenna |  |  Sinn Féin
Peter Hughes |  |  Sinn Féin
Eamonn Duggan |  |  Sinn Féin
Mayo North and West | John Crowley |  |  Sinn Féin
Thomas Derrig |  |  Sinn Féin
Joseph MacBride |  |  Sinn Féin
P. J. Ruttledge |  |  Sinn Féin
Mayo South–Roscommon South | William Sears |  |  Sinn Féin
Tom Maguire |  |  Sinn Féin
Daniel O'Rourke |  |  Sinn Féin
Harry Boland |  |  Sinn Féin
Monaghan | Ernest Blythe |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán MacEntee |  |  Sinn Féin
Eoin O'Duffy |  |  Sinn Féin
National University | Eoin MacNeill[f] |  |  Sinn Féin
Ada English |  |  Sinn Féin
Michael Hayes |  |  Sinn Féin
William Stockley |  |  Sinn Féin
Queen's University of Belfast | John Campbell |  |  UUP
Robert James Johnstone |  |  UUP
Hugh Morrison |  |  UUP
John Hanna Robb |  |  UUP
Sligo–Mayo East | Frank Carty |  |  Sinn Féin
Alexander McCabe |  |  Sinn Féin
James Devins |  |  Sinn Féin
Francis Ferran |  |  Sinn Féin
Thomas O'Donnell |  |  Sinn Féin
Tipperary Mid, North and South | Séamus Burke |  |  Sinn Féin
Joseph MacDonagh |  |  Sinn Féin
P. J. Moloney |  |  Sinn Féin
Patrick O'Byrne |  |  Sinn Féin
Waterford–Tipperary East | Cathal Brugha |  |  Sinn Féin
Eamon Dee |  |  Sinn Féin
Frank Drohan |  |  Sinn Féin
Séumas Robinson |  |  Sinn Féin
Vincent White |  |  Sinn Féin
Wexford | James Ryan |  |  Sinn Féin
Seán Etchingham |  |  Sinn Féin
Richard Corish |  |  Sinn Féin
Séamus Doyle |  |  Sinn Féin

## Vacancies

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Constituency  | Outgoing TD  | Party  | Reason for vacancy  | Date of vacancy

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Waterford–Tipperary East | Frank Drohan |  | Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty) | Resignation  | 5 January 1922
Dublin County | Frank Lawless |  | Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty) | Death  | 16 April 1922
Longford–Westmeath | Joseph McGuinness |  | Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty) | Death  | 31 May 1922

## Footnotes

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1. ^ a b Joseph Devlin was elected for two constituencies: Antrim and Belfast West.
2. ^ a b Michael Collins was elected for two constituencies: Armagh and Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West.
3. ^ a b Arthur Griffith was elected for two constituencies: Cavan and Fermanagh & Tyrone.
4. ^ a b Seán Milroy was elected for two constituencies: Cavan and Fermanagh & Tyrone.
5. ^ a b Éamon de Valera was elected for two constituencies: Clare and Down.
6. ^ a b Eoin MacNeill was elected for two constituencies: Londonderry and National University of Ireland.

## References

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1. ^ "President's Statement. - Elections". Houses of the Oireachtas. 10 May 1921. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
2. ^ "General Election of 24 May 1921". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
3. ^ "TDs & Senators". Houses of the Oireachtas. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
4. ^ "Dáil Éireann debates". Houses of the Oireachtas. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
5. ^ "Appendix 19 Dáil Éireann". Houses of the Oireachtas. 16 August 1921. Retrieved 4 September 2010.

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