Stephen's Green division parliamentary election, 1895. Vote for Count Plunkett the indepdendent candidate who seeks neither favour nor office, and who will sit in the House of Commons as an Irish member independent of all English parties. Vote for Count Plunkett and Home Rule!
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| Summary: | Card [printed by Joseph Dollard, Printinghouse, Wellington Quay] seeking support for Count Plunkett to return him as a member of parliament for the Stephen's Green Division in the general election which took place on Tuesday July 16, 1895 (he was sole nationalist candidate for Dublin in the 1895 general election). Featuring an image of Count Plunkett on recto, text continues "Vote for Count Plunkett! Who advocates Denominational Education; Who advocates Peasant Proprietary; Who will press for the Release of the Political Prisoners; and Who is, and has always been, the Advocate of the Welfare of the Irish Workingman; and has Laboured, and will Labour, for the Development of Irish Industries. Vote for Count Plunkett. Count Plunkett hopes he will be excused form making a personal canvass, which would be impossible under the circumstances. Continued on verso "Polling...opens 8 a.m., closes 8 p.m. Trinity Ward polling place, Kildare Place Schools (off Kildare Street)". The name and number assigned to the voter is written on the verso of this card in black ink - "Name as on Register" Christopher Leary; "No. on Register" 608; on the R.O. & J.H. List. Card indicates how a person should vote by placing as X beside Plunkett's name [No.2] as opposed to his rival Kenny [No.1] and noting that "If you spoil a ballot paper ask for another". |
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| Language: | English |
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[Dublin :
V.B. Dillon, Agent for Count Plunkett, 7 Rutland-square, c 1895]
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 card ; ill.; 51 x 32 cm. more |
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EPH A775 |
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Ephemera |
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.
