Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency)
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Tipperary, also known as Tipperary County, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
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This constituency comprised the whole of County Tipperary, except the Parliamentary boroughs of Cashel (1801-1870) and Clonmel (1801-1885). In 1885 the constituency was divided into East Tipperary, Mid Tipperary, North Tipperary and South Tipperary.
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- ^ expelled 16 Feb 1857
- ^ as a convicted felon, he was declared ineligible to sit 10 Feb 1870
- ^ he was adjudged to be a convicted felon and thus ineligible to be elected 18 Feb 1875. At the subsequent by-election held on 13 Mar 1875, he was again returned. He died a week later and the seat was assigned to Stephen Moore (the defeated candidate at the 13 Mar by-election) on 27 May 1875
- ^ A. M. Sullivan, New Ireland, London, n.d. [c. 1877], pp. 329–330. The Princess Grace Irish Library profile of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa claims the result was 1131 to 1028.
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