On This Day / May 14, 1921
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Summary: On This Day – 14th May 1921, Sinn Féin swept the Southern elections unopposed while anti-Partition candidates prepared to contest the new Northern Parliament. Edited by Éamon Phoenix.
Sinn Fein Sweep | On This Day – 14th May 1921
THE ‘General Election’ for the ‘Parliament of Southern Ireland’ under the provisions of the British measure known here as the Partition of Ireland Act was to have taken place on May 24th.
However, it was over at an early hour yesterday afternoon. 128 candidates were nominated in Southern Ireland: 128 were returned without opposition.
Our Dublin correspondent wires: Sinn Fein has made a clean sweep of the elections for the ‘Parliament of Southern Ireland’.
The Republican candidates have been returned everywhere unopposed – even in Donegal where the Unionists withdrew at the last minute.
The only non-Republican candidates elected are the four members for Trinity College Dublin. These gentlemen have declared themselves in favour of a united Ireland.
West Belfast Man Sentenced
AMONG the court martial results issued from General Headquarters, Dublin yesterday was the following:
Fifteen years’ penal servitude was imposed on Michael Charles Ryan, telegraphist, General Post Office, St Paul’s Terrace, Belfast for attacking two military foot police and robbing them of their revolvers, ammunition, holsters, belts and lanyards.
The accused was also identified as one of those standing at the back entrance of the Ulster Club when two bombs were thrown.
Northern Anti-Partition Candidates
FIFTY-TWO members of the ‘Northern Parliament’ are to be elected on Tuesday, May 24th.
The following have been nominated: Nationalists -13; Sinn Fein – 20; Independent – 4; Labour – 1; Partitionists – 40.
Three of the new candidates – Councillor James Baird (South Belfast); Mr Harry Midgley (East Belfast) and Mr John Hanna (West Belfast) have been prominently associated with the Independent Labour Party while the fourth, Rev Bruce Wallace, was formerly minister of Cliftonpark Congregational Church.
Mr Midgley served for four and a half years in the Ulster Division. Mr Hanna and Councillor Baird were employed for a number of years in Queen’s Island.
Mr Joseph Devlin, MP, the Nationalist leader, was nominated by Thomas R Caffrey, JP (brewer); Rev Alfred Grevan, CC and supported among others by Daniel McCann, JP, West Street.
The Sinn Fein candidate for QUB, Sean Dolan, is nominated by Dr James V Moore, Clifton Street and Rev James P Clenaghan, President, St Malachy’s College.
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: Despite their opposition to Partition, Sinn Fein used the elections to the doomed Southern Parliament to return a new and larger Dail.
In the North, three of the Labour candidates opposed partition, including Councillor James Baird who had been expelled from the shipyards as a ‘rotten Prod’.
Dr JB Moore, who backed a Sinn Fein candidate, was the father of the future novelist, Brian Moore and a physician in the Mater Hospital. He was a brother-in-law of the Sinn Fein leader, Eoin MacNeill.)
On This Day – 14th May 1921
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Summary: On This Day – 14th May 1921, Sinn Féin swept the Southern elections unopposed while anti-Partition candidates prepared to contest the new Northern Parliament. Edited by Éamon Phoenix.
Sinn Fein Sweep | On This Day – 14th May 1921
THE ‘General Election’ for the ‘Parliament of Southern Ireland’ under the provisions of the British measure known here as the Partition of Ireland Act was to have taken place on May 24th.
However, it was over at an early hour yesterday afternoon. 128 candidates were nominated in Southern Ireland: 128 were returned without opposition.
Our Dublin correspondent wires: Sinn Fein has made a clean sweep of the elections for the ‘Parliament of Southern Ireland’.
The Republican candidates have been returned everywhere unopposed – even in Donegal where the Unionists withdrew at the last minute.
The only non-Republican candidates elected are the four members for Trinity College Dublin. These gentlemen have declared themselves in favour of a united Ireland.
West Belfast Man Sentenced
AMONG the court martial results issued from General Headquarters, Dublin yesterday was the following:
Fifteen years’ penal servitude was imposed on Michael Charles Ryan, telegraphist, General Post Office, St Paul’s Terrace, Belfast for attacking two military foot police and robbing them of their revolvers, ammunition, holsters, belts and lanyards.
The accused was also identified as one of those standing at the back entrance of the Ulster Club when two bombs were thrown.
Northern Anti-Partition Candidates
FIFTY-TWO members of the ‘Northern Parliament’ are to be elected on Tuesday, May 24th.
The following have been nominated: Nationalists -13; Sinn Fein – 20; Independent – 4; Labour – 1; Partitionists – 40.
Three of the new candidates – Councillor James Baird (South Belfast); Mr Harry Midgley (East Belfast) and Mr John Hanna (West Belfast) have been prominently associated with the Independent Labour Party while the fourth, Rev Bruce Wallace, was formerly minister of Cliftonpark Congregational Church.
Mr Midgley served for four and a half years in the Ulster Division. Mr Hanna and Councillor Baird were employed for a number of years in Queen’s Island.
Mr Joseph Devlin, MP, the Nationalist leader, was nominated by Thomas R Caffrey, JP (brewer); Rev Alfred Grevan, CC and supported among others by Daniel McCann, JP, West Street.
The Sinn Fein candidate for QUB, Sean Dolan, is nominated by Dr James V Moore, Clifton Street and Rev James P Clenaghan, President, St Malachy’s College.
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: Despite their opposition to Partition, Sinn Fein used the elections to the doomed Southern Parliament to return a new and larger Dail.
In the North, three of the Labour candidates opposed partition, including Councillor James Baird who had been expelled from the shipyards as a ‘rotten Prod’.
Dr JB Moore, who backed a Sinn Fein candidate, was the father of the future novelist, Brian Moore and a physician in the Mater Hospital. He was a brother-in-law of the Sinn Fein leader, Eoin MacNeill.)
On This Day – 14th May 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
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Summary: On This Day – 14th May 1921, Sinn Féin swept the Southern elections unopposed while anti-Partition candidates prepared to contest the new Northern Parliament. Edited by Éamon Phoenix.
Sinn Fein Sweep | On This Day – 14th May 1921
THE ‘General Election’ for the ‘Parliament of Southern Ireland’ under the provisions of the British measure known here as the Partition of Ireland Act was to have taken place on May 24th.
However, it was over at an early hour yesterday afternoon. 128 candidates were nominated in Southern Ireland: 128 were returned without opposition.
Our Dublin correspondent wires: Sinn Fein has made a clean sweep of the elections for the ‘Parliament of Southern Ireland’.
The Republican candidates have been returned everywhere unopposed – even in Donegal where the Unionists withdrew at the last minute.
The only non-Republican candidates elected are the four members for Trinity College Dublin. These gentlemen have declared themselves in favour of a united Ireland.
West Belfast Man Sentenced
AMONG the court martial results issued from General Headquarters, Dublin yesterday was the following:
Fifteen years’ penal servitude was imposed on Michael Charles Ryan, telegraphist, General Post Office, St Paul’s Terrace, Belfast for attacking two military foot police and robbing them of their revolvers, ammunition, holsters, belts and lanyards.
The accused was also identified as one of those standing at the back entrance of the Ulster Club when two bombs were thrown.
Northern Anti-Partition Candidates
FIFTY-TWO members of the ‘Northern Parliament’ are to be elected on Tuesday, May 24th.
The following have been nominated: Nationalists -13; Sinn Fein – 20; Independent – 4; Labour – 1; Partitionists – 40.
Three of the new candidates – Councillor James Baird (South Belfast); Mr Harry Midgley (East Belfast) and Mr John Hanna (West Belfast) have been prominently associated with the Independent Labour Party while the fourth, Rev Bruce Wallace, was formerly minister of Cliftonpark Congregational Church.
Mr Midgley served for four and a half years in the Ulster Division. Mr Hanna and Councillor Baird were employed for a number of years in Queen’s Island.
Mr Joseph Devlin, MP, the Nationalist leader, was nominated by Thomas R Caffrey, JP (brewer); Rev Alfred Grevan, CC and supported among others by Daniel McCann, JP, West Street.
The Sinn Fein candidate for QUB, Sean Dolan, is nominated by Dr James V Moore, Clifton Street and Rev James P Clenaghan, President, St Malachy’s College.
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: Despite their opposition to Partition, Sinn Fein used the elections to the doomed Southern Parliament to return a new and larger Dail.
In the North, three of the Labour candidates opposed partition, including Councillor James Baird who had been expelled from the shipyards as a ‘rotten Prod’.
Dr JB Moore, who backed a Sinn Fein candidate, was the father of the future novelist, Brian Moore and a physician in the Mater Hospital. He was a brother-in-law of the Sinn Fein leader, Eoin MacNeill.)
On This Day – 14th May 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
List of other On This Day columns
Other resources: National Library of Ireland Irish News CAIN Archive
On This Day is a daily column in the Irish News looking back either 50 or 100 years. The column was compiled by Dr Éamon Phoenix from the mid 1980s until autumn, 2022. The Foundation is very grateful to the Irish News for giving permission to reproduce Eamon’s columns. Funding gratefully received from Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and the Magill Trust.
* The Foundation has worked hard to recreate Eamon’s distinctive voice through AI. Since this is an emerging technology, occasional imperfections may be audible.