The constituency of Carlow–Kilkenny has been used at Irish elections since the election of the Second Dáil at the 1921 general election. Prior to Irish independence, elections to the UK Parliament were held in three single-seat constituencies, known as Carlow, Kilkenny North and Kilkenny South, and it was these three constituencies that elected members of the First Dáil. Carlow–Kilkenny did not exist between 1937 and 1948, when it was replaced by the constituencies of Carlow–Kildare and Kilkenny.
Carlow (/ˈkɑːr.loʊ/; Irish:Ceatharlach) is the county town of County Carlow in Ireland. It is situated in the south-east of Ireland, 84km from Dublin. County Carlow is the second smallest county in Ireland by area, however Carlow Town is the 14th largest urban area in Ireland by population according to the 2011 census with a population of 23,030. The River Barrow flows through the town, and forms the historic boundary between counties Laois and Carlow: the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 included the town entirely in County Carlow. The settlement of Carlow is thousands of years old and pre-dates written Irish history. The town has played a major role in Irish history, serving as the capital of the country in the 14th century. It was voted the cleanest town in Ireland by Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) in 2010.
Etymology
The name Carlow is an anglicisation of the Irish language name Ceatharlach. Historically, it was anglicised as Caherlagh,Caterlagh and Catherlagh, which are closer to the Irish spelling. According to logainm.ie, the first part of the name derives from the Old Irish word cethrae ("animals, cattle, herds, flocks"), which is related to ceathar ("four") and therefore signified "four-legged". The second part of the name is the ending -lach.
Kilkenny (Irish:Cill Chainnigh, meaning "church of Cainnech") is a city located in south-east part of Ireland and the county town of County Kilkenny. It is on both banks of the River Nore in the province of Leinster. The city is administered by a Borough Council and a Mayor which is a level below that of city council in the Local government of the state although the Local Government Act 2001 allows for "the continued use of the description city". The borough has a population of 8,711, but the majority of the population lives outside the borough boundary: the 2011 Irish Census gives the total population of the Borough and Environs as 24,423.
Kilkenny is a popular tourist destination. In 2009 the City of Kilkenny celebrated its 400th year since the granting of city status in 1609. Though referred to as a city, Kilkenny City is the size of a large town, most equatable in size to the town of Navan, situated on the banks of the Boyne in county Meath. Kilkenny's heritage is evident in the city and environs including the historic buildings such as Kilkenny Castle, St. Canice's Cathedral and round tower, Rothe House, Shee Alms House,Black Abbey, St. Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny Town Hall, St. Francis Abbey, Grace's Castle, and St. John's Priory. Kilkenny is well known for its culture with craft and design workshops, the Watergate Theatre, public gardens and museums. Annual events include Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Cat Laughs comedy festival and music at the Rhythm and Roots festival and the Source concert. It is a popular base from which to explore the surrounding towns, villages and countryside. Controversy exists at the moment around the Kilkenny Central Access Scheme which is a road proposed to be built through the city centre.
Kilkenny (pronounce “Kill-Cainey”) was the 662 acre pre-American Revolutionary War property of Thomas Young (1733-1808) from about 1758 and was later used as the site of the Kilkenny Club. The executors of Young’s estate sold Kilkenny to Charles Rogers of Savannah and Sapelo Island on January 21, 1836. The land was used to raise Sea Island cotton. The property fronts the Kilkenny River and overlooks tidal salt marsh out towards Ossabaw, the St. Catherines Islands and Ossabaw Islands, with access to St. Catherines Sound. Rogers built a wooden frame house ca. 1845 that still exists. A Union gunboat shelled the property from the Bear River during the U.S. Civil War.
After the Civil War Kilkenny plantation was purchased by James M. Butler in 1874. It was then acquired by James H. Furber in January 1890 and the Kilkenny Club was established. In 1889 a well was drilled.
The property was owned by Former Tennessee governor John Cox and Henry Ford (June 1930). Ford restored it. Ford also restored the structures that had been used as slave cabins, but they were later demolished.
Some Dáil Éireann constituencies cross county boundaries in order to ensure a reasonably consistent ratio of electors to TDs. However, the 1937 Act defines the boundaries of the Kilkenny constituency as being simply "the administrative County of Kilkenny".
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor for Carlow KIlkenny - Vote Number One
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published: 31 Jan 2020
John McGuinness moves Local Government Bill
Carlow-Kilkenny Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness moves Dáil debate on new Local Government Bill on rates
published: 25 Nov 2014
Bobby Aylward.
Bobby Aylward is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency since 2015, and previously from 2007 to 2011. He also works as a farmer as well as being a TD. He was a member of Kilkenny County Council from 1992 until his election to the Dáil in 2007.
published: 27 Nov 2019
A tribute to the late Bobby Aylward TD from his Carlow/ Kilkenny Constituency Political Colleagues.
We dedicate this debut programme to the memory of Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála TD one of Ireland's most decent down to earth approachable popular charismatic politicians.
A tribute to a highly respected popular down to Irish politician, Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála (TD by his local constituency colleagues.
Bobby was passionate and very committed to his constituents in Kilkenny, who loved and respected him in return; Bobby loved his county, his Ballyhale GAA and his country.
Deputy Bobby Aylward was also held in such high regard by his fellow political representatives within his own political party and cross-party colleagues too.
The popular charismatic Carlow-Kilkenny TD was elected to the Dáil on three separate occasions during his time as a politician.
Bobby came from a respected political...
published: 17 Sep 2022
Deputy Kathleen Funchion - Committee Report - 20 Jun 2019
Dáil Éireann debate - 20 Jun 2019
Deputy Kathleen Funchion - Committee Report - 20 Jun 2019
Motion on ‘Report on Community Policing and Rural Crime’ – Joint Committee on Justice and Equality
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published: 20 Jun 2019
Kathleen Funchion TD speaks on housing in the Dáil 140416
Carlow Kilkenny TD, Kathleen Funchion, speaks in the Dáil on the housing crisis in her constituency.
published: 15 Apr 2016
Irish Political Roundup Launches our debut programme; a Tribute to Bobby Aylward Carlow Kilkenny TD
The Irish Political Roundup Launch
Link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnOisHv7A6MkN81_V_caiJA
I launched my second YouTube Channel last week.
Irish Political Roundup dedicated their debut programme to the memory of Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála TD one of Ireland's most decent down to earth approachable popular charismatic politicians.
A tribute to a highly respected popular down to Irish politician, Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála (TD by his local constituency colleagues.
Bobby was passionate and very committed to his constituents in Kilkenny, who loved and respected him in return; Bobby loved his county, his Ballyhale GAA and his country.
Deputy Bobby Aylward was also held in such high regard by his fellow political representatives within his own political party and cross-party colleague...
published: 24 Sep 2022
Electioneering and Propoganda 1917-21 by Dr. Elaine Callinan – Weds 19 May 2021
The aim of this lecture is to provide an informative discussion on the political (and some military) rivalry between all the major parties and movements during Ireland’s revolutionary years, and there will be a strong focus on Carlow. This period saw the last all-island elections and competition between parties on rival ideas for independence was extensive. There was opposition between unionism and nationalism and within nationalism between old and new parties. The outcome of these elections altered the course of Irish history as the victors went on to dominate government across the island for the next fifty years. It is from these elections that we can trace the true beginnings of Dáil Éireann and the Northern Ireland parliament; and, they set the scene for the war of independence and c...
published: 21 May 2021
Our Candidates: Adrienne Wallace Carlow
published: 16 Dec 2018
Niall Collins apologises to people of Limerick over voting controversy
TD Niall Collins has made an apology to the people of Limerick in a personal statement in the Dáil this Thursday afternoon for his involvement in the “votegate” controversy.
Story by Rebecca Laffan
Bobby Aylward is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency since 2015, and previously from 2007 to 2011. ...
Bobby Aylward is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency since 2015, and previously from 2007 to 2011. He also works as a farmer as well as being a TD. He was a member of Kilkenny County Council from 1992 until his election to the Dáil in 2007.
Bobby Aylward is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency since 2015, and previously from 2007 to 2011. He also works as a farmer as well as being a TD. He was a member of Kilkenny County Council from 1992 until his election to the Dáil in 2007.
We dedicate this debut programme to the memory of Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála TD one of Ireland's most decent down to earth approachable popular charismatic poli...
We dedicate this debut programme to the memory of Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála TD one of Ireland's most decent down to earth approachable popular charismatic politicians.
A tribute to a highly respected popular down to Irish politician, Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála (TD by his local constituency colleagues.
Bobby was passionate and very committed to his constituents in Kilkenny, who loved and respected him in return; Bobby loved his county, his Ballyhale GAA and his country.
Deputy Bobby Aylward was also held in such high regard by his fellow political representatives within his own political party and cross-party colleagues too.
The popular charismatic Carlow-Kilkenny TD was elected to the Dáil on three separate occasions during his time as a politician.
Bobby came from a respected political family whose father Bob served as a senator on the Seanad’s Agriculture Panel for a brief period in the 1970s before untimely passing away while still serving and his brother Liam Alyward represented Carlow Kilkenny as a TD from 1977 until 2004 when he was elected as an MEP. Liam retired fully from politics in 2014.
Mr Aylward was elected as Kilkenny County Councillor for the Piltown constituency on two occasions before participating in national politics in Ireland
Bobby Aylward also sat on the following boards:
Southern Fisheries Board from 2000 to 2007
the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly from 1999 to 2004
Port of Waterford, from 1999 to 2004.
He is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.
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We dedicate this debut programme to the memory of Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála TD one of Ireland's most decent down to earth approachable popular charismatic politicians.
A tribute to a highly respected popular down to Irish politician, Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála (TD by his local constituency colleagues.
Bobby was passionate and very committed to his constituents in Kilkenny, who loved and respected him in return; Bobby loved his county, his Ballyhale GAA and his country.
Deputy Bobby Aylward was also held in such high regard by his fellow political representatives within his own political party and cross-party colleagues too.
The popular charismatic Carlow-Kilkenny TD was elected to the Dáil on three separate occasions during his time as a politician.
Bobby came from a respected political family whose father Bob served as a senator on the Seanad’s Agriculture Panel for a brief period in the 1970s before untimely passing away while still serving and his brother Liam Alyward represented Carlow Kilkenny as a TD from 1977 until 2004 when he was elected as an MEP. Liam retired fully from politics in 2014.
Mr Aylward was elected as Kilkenny County Councillor for the Piltown constituency on two occasions before participating in national politics in Ireland
Bobby Aylward also sat on the following boards:
Southern Fisheries Board from 2000 to 2007
the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly from 1999 to 2004
Port of Waterford, from 1999 to 2004.
He is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.
#KilkennyCountyCouncil
#kilkenny
#carlowkilkenny
#BobbyAlyward
#RIPBobby
#localpolitics
#Irishpoliticalroundup
#irishpolitics
#BallyhaleShamrockGAA
#Localpolitics
#RuralIreland
#farming
#ireland
Dáil Éireann debate - 20 Jun 2019
Deputy Kathleen Funchion - Committee Report - 20 Jun 2019
Motion on ‘Report on Community Policing and Rural Crime’ – Joint Co...
Dáil Éireann debate - 20 Jun 2019
Deputy Kathleen Funchion - Committee Report - 20 Jun 2019
Motion on ‘Report on Community Policing and Rural Crime’ – Joint Committee on Justice and Equality
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Dáil Éireann debate - 20 Jun 2019
Deputy Kathleen Funchion - Committee Report - 20 Jun 2019
Motion on ‘Report on Community Policing and Rural Crime’ – Joint Committee on Justice and Equality
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The Irish Political Roundup Launch
Link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnOisHv7A6MkN81_V_caiJA
I launched my second YouTube Channel last week.
Irish Polit...
The Irish Political Roundup Launch
Link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnOisHv7A6MkN81_V_caiJA
I launched my second YouTube Channel last week.
Irish Political Roundup dedicated their debut programme to the memory of Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála TD one of Ireland's most decent down to earth approachable popular charismatic politicians.
A tribute to a highly respected popular down to Irish politician, Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála (TD by his local constituency colleagues.
Bobby was passionate and very committed to his constituents in Kilkenny, who loved and respected him in return; Bobby loved his county, his Ballyhale GAA and his country.
Deputy Bobby Aylward was also held in such high regard by his fellow political representatives within his own political party and cross-party colleagues too.
The popular charismatic Carlow-Kilkenny TD was elected to the Dáil on three separate occasions during his time as a politician.
Bobby came from a respected political family whose father Bob served as a senator on the Seanad’s Agriculture Panel for a brief period in the 1970s before untimely passing away while still serving and his brother Liam Alyward represented Carlow Kilkenny as a TD from 1977 until 2004 when he was elected as an MEP. Liam retired fully from politics in 2014.
Mr Aylward was elected as Kilkenny County Councillor for the Piltown constituency on two occasions before participating in national politics in Ireland
Bobby Aylward also sat on the following boards:
Southern Fisheries Board from 2000 to 2007
the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly from 1999 to 2004
Port of Waterford, from 1999 to 2004.
He is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.
#KilkennyCountyCouncil
#kilkenny
#carlowkilkenny
#BobbyAlyward
#RIPBobby
#localpolitics
#Irishpoliticalroundup
#irishpolitics
#BallyhaleShamrockGAA
#Localpolitics
#RuralIreland
#farming
#ireland
The Irish Political Roundup Launch
Link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnOisHv7A6MkN81_V_caiJA
I launched my second YouTube Channel last week.
Irish Political Roundup dedicated their debut programme to the memory of Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála TD one of Ireland's most decent down to earth approachable popular charismatic politicians.
A tribute to a highly respected popular down to Irish politician, Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála (TD by his local constituency colleagues.
Bobby was passionate and very committed to his constituents in Kilkenny, who loved and respected him in return; Bobby loved his county, his Ballyhale GAA and his country.
Deputy Bobby Aylward was also held in such high regard by his fellow political representatives within his own political party and cross-party colleagues too.
The popular charismatic Carlow-Kilkenny TD was elected to the Dáil on three separate occasions during his time as a politician.
Bobby came from a respected political family whose father Bob served as a senator on the Seanad’s Agriculture Panel for a brief period in the 1970s before untimely passing away while still serving and his brother Liam Alyward represented Carlow Kilkenny as a TD from 1977 until 2004 when he was elected as an MEP. Liam retired fully from politics in 2014.
Mr Aylward was elected as Kilkenny County Councillor for the Piltown constituency on two occasions before participating in national politics in Ireland
Bobby Aylward also sat on the following boards:
Southern Fisheries Board from 2000 to 2007
the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly from 1999 to 2004
Port of Waterford, from 1999 to 2004.
He is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.
#KilkennyCountyCouncil
#kilkenny
#carlowkilkenny
#BobbyAlyward
#RIPBobby
#localpolitics
#Irishpoliticalroundup
#irishpolitics
#BallyhaleShamrockGAA
#Localpolitics
#RuralIreland
#farming
#ireland
The aim of this lecture is to provide an informative discussion on the political (and some military) rivalry between all the major parties and movements during ...
The aim of this lecture is to provide an informative discussion on the political (and some military) rivalry between all the major parties and movements during Ireland’s revolutionary years, and there will be a strong focus on Carlow. This period saw the last all-island elections and competition between parties on rival ideas for independence was extensive. There was opposition between unionism and nationalism and within nationalism between old and new parties. The outcome of these elections altered the course of Irish history as the victors went on to dominate government across the island for the next fifty years. It is from these elections that we can trace the true beginnings of Dáil Éireann and the Northern Ireland parliament; and, they set the scene for the war of independence and civil war that followed. Carlow was impacted on and involved in all of these events.
Many today refer to the Easter Rising as the catalyst for change, but were there political arguments and propaganda that encouraged many people to switch allegiance to a new and unknown political party in 1918? Far more people were involved in the election campaigns and in casting a vote so they impacted more than the military happenings. The politicians, propagandists and their voluntary supporters instigated forceful campaigns to promote ideologies in an attempt to alter the mind-set of ordinary individuals, and the goal was victory at the ballot box. Elaine’s talk will place these elections within the wider contexts of the modernization of propaganda during the Great War and the expansion of consumerism to conduct an examination of election activity – from candidate selection and fundraising to door-to-door canvassing, and everything in between. Running alongside war and revolution were the political struggles, and they equalled any of the military upheavals that transformed Ireland.
Dr Elaine Callinan Biography
Dr Elaine Callinan is a lecture in Modern Irish History at Carlow College, St. Patrick’s and has a particular interest in the Irish revolutionary era. She teaches modules in Carlow College on Ireland: Insurrection to Independence 1917-1923; Ireland: Politics and Society 1923-1980; The Troubles of Northern Ireland, Public History and Cultural Heritage, and Memory and Commemoration. She completed her MPhil and PhD at Trinity College Dublin.
Elaine is the author of Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland 1917-21: Votes, violence and victory (Dublin 2020) published by Four Courts Press. She has also published journal articles and book chapters in a number of publications. The main focus of Elaine’s research is to examine how politicians and political parties campaigned in elections in Ireland during a time of political and military upheaval and just before the foundation of the Irish Free State.
The aim of this lecture is to provide an informative discussion on the political (and some military) rivalry between all the major parties and movements during Ireland’s revolutionary years, and there will be a strong focus on Carlow. This period saw the last all-island elections and competition between parties on rival ideas for independence was extensive. There was opposition between unionism and nationalism and within nationalism between old and new parties. The outcome of these elections altered the course of Irish history as the victors went on to dominate government across the island for the next fifty years. It is from these elections that we can trace the true beginnings of Dáil Éireann and the Northern Ireland parliament; and, they set the scene for the war of independence and civil war that followed. Carlow was impacted on and involved in all of these events.
Many today refer to the Easter Rising as the catalyst for change, but were there political arguments and propaganda that encouraged many people to switch allegiance to a new and unknown political party in 1918? Far more people were involved in the election campaigns and in casting a vote so they impacted more than the military happenings. The politicians, propagandists and their voluntary supporters instigated forceful campaigns to promote ideologies in an attempt to alter the mind-set of ordinary individuals, and the goal was victory at the ballot box. Elaine’s talk will place these elections within the wider contexts of the modernization of propaganda during the Great War and the expansion of consumerism to conduct an examination of election activity – from candidate selection and fundraising to door-to-door canvassing, and everything in between. Running alongside war and revolution were the political struggles, and they equalled any of the military upheavals that transformed Ireland.
Dr Elaine Callinan Biography
Dr Elaine Callinan is a lecture in Modern Irish History at Carlow College, St. Patrick’s and has a particular interest in the Irish revolutionary era. She teaches modules in Carlow College on Ireland: Insurrection to Independence 1917-1923; Ireland: Politics and Society 1923-1980; The Troubles of Northern Ireland, Public History and Cultural Heritage, and Memory and Commemoration. She completed her MPhil and PhD at Trinity College Dublin.
Elaine is the author of Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland 1917-21: Votes, violence and victory (Dublin 2020) published by Four Courts Press. She has also published journal articles and book chapters in a number of publications. The main focus of Elaine’s research is to examine how politicians and political parties campaigned in elections in Ireland during a time of political and military upheaval and just before the foundation of the Irish Free State.
TD Niall Collins has made an apology to the people of Limerick in a personal statement in the Dáil this Thursday afternoon for his involvement in the “votegate”...
TD Niall Collins has made an apology to the people of Limerick in a personal statement in the Dáil this Thursday afternoon for his involvement in the “votegate” controversy.
Story by Rebecca Laffan
TD Niall Collins has made an apology to the people of Limerick in a personal statement in the Dáil this Thursday afternoon for his involvement in the “votegate” controversy.
Story by Rebecca Laffan
Bobby Aylward is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency since 2015, and previously from 2007 to 2011. He also works as a farmer as well as being a TD. He was a member of Kilkenny County Council from 1992 until his election to the Dáil in 2007.
We dedicate this debut programme to the memory of Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála TD one of Ireland's most decent down to earth approachable popular charismatic politicians.
A tribute to a highly respected popular down to Irish politician, Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála (TD by his local constituency colleagues.
Bobby was passionate and very committed to his constituents in Kilkenny, who loved and respected him in return; Bobby loved his county, his Ballyhale GAA and his country.
Deputy Bobby Aylward was also held in such high regard by his fellow political representatives within his own political party and cross-party colleagues too.
The popular charismatic Carlow-Kilkenny TD was elected to the Dáil on three separate occasions during his time as a politician.
Bobby came from a respected political family whose father Bob served as a senator on the Seanad’s Agriculture Panel for a brief period in the 1970s before untimely passing away while still serving and his brother Liam Alyward represented Carlow Kilkenny as a TD from 1977 until 2004 when he was elected as an MEP. Liam retired fully from politics in 2014.
Mr Aylward was elected as Kilkenny County Councillor for the Piltown constituency on two occasions before participating in national politics in Ireland
Bobby Aylward also sat on the following boards:
Southern Fisheries Board from 2000 to 2007
the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly from 1999 to 2004
Port of Waterford, from 1999 to 2004.
He is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.
#KilkennyCountyCouncil
#kilkenny
#carlowkilkenny
#BobbyAlyward
#RIPBobby
#localpolitics
#Irishpoliticalroundup
#irishpolitics
#BallyhaleShamrockGAA
#Localpolitics
#RuralIreland
#farming
#ireland
Dáil Éireann debate - 20 Jun 2019
Deputy Kathleen Funchion - Committee Report - 20 Jun 2019
Motion on ‘Report on Community Policing and Rural Crime’ – Joint Committee on Justice and Equality
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The Irish Political Roundup Launch
Link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnOisHv7A6MkN81_V_caiJA
I launched my second YouTube Channel last week.
Irish Political Roundup dedicated their debut programme to the memory of Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála TD one of Ireland's most decent down to earth approachable popular charismatic politicians.
A tribute to a highly respected popular down to Irish politician, Bobby Aylward Teachta Dála (TD by his local constituency colleagues.
Bobby was passionate and very committed to his constituents in Kilkenny, who loved and respected him in return; Bobby loved his county, his Ballyhale GAA and his country.
Deputy Bobby Aylward was also held in such high regard by his fellow political representatives within his own political party and cross-party colleagues too.
The popular charismatic Carlow-Kilkenny TD was elected to the Dáil on three separate occasions during his time as a politician.
Bobby came from a respected political family whose father Bob served as a senator on the Seanad’s Agriculture Panel for a brief period in the 1970s before untimely passing away while still serving and his brother Liam Alyward represented Carlow Kilkenny as a TD from 1977 until 2004 when he was elected as an MEP. Liam retired fully from politics in 2014.
Mr Aylward was elected as Kilkenny County Councillor for the Piltown constituency on two occasions before participating in national politics in Ireland
Bobby Aylward also sat on the following boards:
Southern Fisheries Board from 2000 to 2007
the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly from 1999 to 2004
Port of Waterford, from 1999 to 2004.
He is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.
#KilkennyCountyCouncil
#kilkenny
#carlowkilkenny
#BobbyAlyward
#RIPBobby
#localpolitics
#Irishpoliticalroundup
#irishpolitics
#BallyhaleShamrockGAA
#Localpolitics
#RuralIreland
#farming
#ireland
The aim of this lecture is to provide an informative discussion on the political (and some military) rivalry between all the major parties and movements during Ireland’s revolutionary years, and there will be a strong focus on Carlow. This period saw the last all-island elections and competition between parties on rival ideas for independence was extensive. There was opposition between unionism and nationalism and within nationalism between old and new parties. The outcome of these elections altered the course of Irish history as the victors went on to dominate government across the island for the next fifty years. It is from these elections that we can trace the true beginnings of Dáil Éireann and the Northern Ireland parliament; and, they set the scene for the war of independence and civil war that followed. Carlow was impacted on and involved in all of these events.
Many today refer to the Easter Rising as the catalyst for change, but were there political arguments and propaganda that encouraged many people to switch allegiance to a new and unknown political party in 1918? Far more people were involved in the election campaigns and in casting a vote so they impacted more than the military happenings. The politicians, propagandists and their voluntary supporters instigated forceful campaigns to promote ideologies in an attempt to alter the mind-set of ordinary individuals, and the goal was victory at the ballot box. Elaine’s talk will place these elections within the wider contexts of the modernization of propaganda during the Great War and the expansion of consumerism to conduct an examination of election activity – from candidate selection and fundraising to door-to-door canvassing, and everything in between. Running alongside war and revolution were the political struggles, and they equalled any of the military upheavals that transformed Ireland.
Dr Elaine Callinan Biography
Dr Elaine Callinan is a lecture in Modern Irish History at Carlow College, St. Patrick’s and has a particular interest in the Irish revolutionary era. She teaches modules in Carlow College on Ireland: Insurrection to Independence 1917-1923; Ireland: Politics and Society 1923-1980; The Troubles of Northern Ireland, Public History and Cultural Heritage, and Memory and Commemoration. She completed her MPhil and PhD at Trinity College Dublin.
Elaine is the author of Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland 1917-21: Votes, violence and victory (Dublin 2020) published by Four Courts Press. She has also published journal articles and book chapters in a number of publications. The main focus of Elaine’s research is to examine how politicians and political parties campaigned in elections in Ireland during a time of political and military upheaval and just before the foundation of the Irish Free State.
TD Niall Collins has made an apology to the people of Limerick in a personal statement in the Dáil this Thursday afternoon for his involvement in the “votegate” controversy.
Story by Rebecca Laffan
The constituency of Carlow–Kilkenny has been used at Irish elections since the election of the Second Dáil at the 1921 general election. Prior to Irish independence, elections to the UK Parliament were held in three single-seat constituencies, known as Carlow, Kilkenny North and Kilkenny South, and it was these three constituencies that elected members of the First Dáil. Carlow–Kilkenny did not exist between 1937 and 1948, when it was replaced by the constituencies of Carlow–Kildare and Kilkenny.
Fianna Fáil’s Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere has successful been elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency ... by a season with Kilkenny’s senior camogie team.
... Mr Crotty, who served as a member of Dáil Éireann for 20 years. He served in the Dáil for the Carlow/Kilkenny constituency from 1969 and 1989 having come from a political family.