Senate of Southern Ireland

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The then Royal College of Science
The Senate of Southern Ireland assembled there in June 1921.

The Senate of Southern Ireland (1921-1922) was the upper house of the Parliament of Southern Ireland theoretically established by the 1920 Government of Ireland Act. The Senate convened in 1921 but was boycotted by Irish nationalists. Only fifteen members attended its first meeting and it only met on two further occasions. It was formally abolished with the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.

1 Composition
2 Members of the Senate of Southern Ireland, 1921
3 Footnote
4 References
5 See also

[edit] Composition

The Government of Ireland Act provided for a Senate of 61:

The Lord Chancellor of Ireland (who would be chairman).
Fifteen Peers of the Realm resident in Southern Ireland (elected by a constituency of all Southern Ireland peers).
Eight privy councillors (elected by all members of the Privy Council of Southern Ireland).
Two representatives of the Church of Ireland.
Two representatives of the Catholic Church.
Fourteen individuals nominated by the Lord Lieutenant.
Two individuals nominated by the Lord Lieutenant upon consulation with the labour movement.
Seventeen individuals elected by members of the county councils (divided into a number of geographical constituencies).

In practice, however, only forty senators were selected, as the labour movement, the Catholic Church and the county councils (controlled by Sinn Féin) refused to cooperate¹.

[edit] Members of the Senate of Southern Ireland, 1921

(Members who actually attended the first meeting of the Senate in bold)

Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Sir John Ross (too ill to attend)

Peers of the Realm

The Lord Cloncurry
The Lord de Freyne
The Earl of Desart
The Earl of Donoughmore
The Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
The Lord HolmPatrick
The Lord Inchiquin
The Earl of Kenmare
The Earl of Mayo
The Earl of Midleton
The Lord Oranmore and Browne
The Lord Rathdonnell
The Viscount Powerscourt
The Marquess of Sligo
The Earl of Wicklow

Privy Counsellors

Sir William Goulding
The Earl of Granard
W. McMurrough Kavanagh
Sir Bryan Mahon
The Earl of Meath
Sir Thomas Stafford
L. A. Waldron¹
The Earl of Westmeath

Church of Ireland

Archbishop C. F. D'Arcy
Archbishop J. A. F. Gregg

Appointees of the Lord Lieutenant

E. H. Andrews
Sir John Arnott
Sir Andrew Beattie
J. W. R. Campbell
F. F. Denning
Sir Nugent Everard
C. G. Gamble
H. P. Glynn
Sir John Purser Griffith
H. S. Guinness
A. Jameson
Sir John Moore
Sir William Taylor
G. O'Callaghan Westropp

[edit] Footnote

1. Waldron resigned before the first meeting of the Senate, reducing the official membership to 39.

[edit] References

"The Senate of Southern Ireland, 1921" in Whyte, Nicholas, (2003). Northern Ireland ELECTIONS. Retrieved 8 Mar. 2004 from http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/h1921.htm.

[edit] See also

Historical Irish upper houses
Pre-Union: Home rule: Post-independence:	Irish House of Lords (until 1800) Senate of Northern Ireland (1921-1972), Senate of Southern Ireland (1922) Free State Seanad (1922-1936), Modern Seanad (1937-present)