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Election 1910 and 1918

Compare the majority support by constituency of political parties in Great Britain and Ireland in 1910 and 1918

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Election 1910 and 1918

Compare the majority support by constituency of political parties in Great Britain and Ireland in 1910 and 1918

1910

1918

Conservative

Liberal

Irish Parliamentary

Labour

All for Ireland

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Ireland in 1918

Election 1918

WATCH: Election '18 How Ireland voted in 1918

Joseph Devlin of the Irish Parliamentary Party campaigning during the 1918 election. Devlin defeated Sinn Féin's Eamon de Valera in the constituency of Belfast Falls

December 1918: What the Papers Say

Edward Carson, the Unionist leader who was returned as MP for the Belfast Duncairn constituency in 1918.

A Divided Ireland? Ulster, Unionism and the 1918 election

House of Commons

How Britain Voted – and What it Meant for Ireland

Rebuilding work in May 1918 on Dublin's Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). Photo: R. Humphrey/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

Remembering 1918 in Ireland

Dublin's revolutionary years

Dublin's revolutionary years

Michael Collins and Harry Boland, both elected MPs in 1918, are pictured here holding hurleys in Croke Park in 1921 (RTE Archives)

1918 and the making of a new political generation

More Ireland in 1918

Century Ireland

Sinn Féin predicting electoral landslide

Sinn Féin predicting electoral landslide

Intimidation and disruption mark end to historic election campaign

Intimidation, disruption mark end to historic election campaign

Carson calls for unity and highlights Ulster war sacrifice

Carson calls for unity and highlights Ulster war sacrifice

1918 - Profiles in Leadership

Dr Conor Mulvagh

John Dillon

By Dr Conor Mulvagh, Lecturer, UCD

Dr Leeann Lane

Constance Markievicz

By Dr Leeann Lane, Lecturer

Myles Dungan

Edward Carson

By Myles Dungan, Broadcaster, Author

David McCullagh

Éamon de Valera

By David McCullagh, Broadcaster, Author

From the RTÉ Archives

Richard Gogan recalls Sinn Féin strategy in the lead up to the 1918 general election including personation.

"Put him in to get him out"

Election to the First Dáil

Election to the First Dáil

The First Dáil