How Skerries voted, 1922-2007

Paper 288

Lecture – 2012

Author – Laird, Bob

The paper provides a short historical account of democracy in Ireland by way of setting the context. A detailed account of how Skerries voted in local, national, and presidential elections is given. Much of the detailed information comes from tallies, that is informal counting by tallymen, or agents of the candidates.
 (13 pages).

Theme: Politics