West Kerry was a parliamentary constituency

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 in Ireland

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, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament

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 (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Prior to the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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 the area was part of the Kerry

Kerry (UK Parliament constituency)

A former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament. In 1885, it was split into four constituencies. From the time of Irish independence, the area was no longer represented in the UK Parliament, as it was no longer part of the United Kingdom.-Boundaries:This...

 constituency. Following the Anglo-Irish Treaty

Anglo-Irish Treaty

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 and the formation of the Irish Free State

Irish Free State

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 in 1922, the area was no longer represented in the UK Parliament. The successor constituency in the new Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann

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 was Kerry–Limerick West first established under the Government of Ireland Act 1920

Government of Ireland Act 1920

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 to elect members to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland in 1921.

Members of Parliament

Years	Member	Party
1885–1890	Edward Harrington Edward Harrington (politician) Edward Harrington was an Irish nationalist politician, who served as the Member of Parliament for West Kerry from 1885 to 1892, taking his seat in the House of Commons of what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandHe was born in Co. Kerry, the youngest son of Dennis Harrington...	Irish Parliamentary Party Irish Parliamentary Party The Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at...
1891–1892		Anti-Parnellite
1892–1900	Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, 11th Baronet, was an Irish Home Rule nationalist politician.Esmonde was elected Irish Parliamentary Party MP for the constituencies South Dublin 1885–1892, West Kerry 1892–1900 and North Wexford 1900–1918 in the House of Commons of the United...  Bt	Anti-Parnellite
1900–1918	Thomas O'Donnell	Irish Parliamentary Party Irish Parliamentary Party The Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at...
1918–1922	Austin Stack Austin Stack Austin Stack was an Irish revolutionary and politician.-Early life:Stack was born in Ballymullen, Tralee, County Kerry. He was educated at the Christian Brothers School in Tralee. At the age of fourteen he left school and became a clerk in a solicitor's office. A gifted Gaelic footballer, he...	Sinn Féin Sinn Féin Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...