How did your TD vote on the treaty?

Dublin, 7 January 1922 – The Anglo-Irish treaty, signed in London on 6 December, was ratified by Dáil Éireann today by a margin of 64 votes to 57.

The narrowness of the margin of victory for the pro-treaty side will undoubtedly raise difficulties in plotting a path forward for Irish politics.

The debates on the treaty, which began on 14 December, exposed divisions that exist in almost every constituency in the country.

When the deputies convened for today’s sitting there was great uncertainty as to how the vote would go. Joseph McGrath, one of the whips of the pro-treaty side, was convinced his side was set to lose. ‘There is no doubt at this moment, so far as I can ascertain, that the treaty will be rejected’, he told reporters. Similarly, anti-treatyites, who had little expectation in recent weeks that they might win the vote, had grown in confidence. One anti-treaty TD remarked that the final result would be decided by four or five ‘unknown quantities’ – members who had not committed themselves to either side.

Dr Margaret Ward, in conversation with RTÉ's Bryan Dobson, explains why Cumann na mBan rejected the Anglo -Irish Treaty

Those who were in the Dáil Éireann chamber in Earlsfort Terrace represented constituencies across all four provinces. TDs representing two constiuencies, indicated below, only cast a single vote. Here, organised by province and constituency, is how they voted. 

Munster

Cork City
J.J. Walsh – For
Liam de Róiste – For
Mary MacSwiney – Against
Dónal Ó Ceallacháin – Against

Cork Mid, North, South, South-East and West
Michael Collins – For (Collins also represents Armagh)
Seán Hayes – For
Patrick O’Keeffe – For
Seán Hales – For
Seán MacSwiney – Against
Daniel Corkery – Against
Seán Nolan – Against
Seán Moylan – Against

Cork East and North-East
Thomas Hunter – Against
David Kent – Against
James Fitzgerald – Against

Clare
Patrick Brennan – For
Seán Liddy – For
Éamon de Valera – Against (De Valera is also the TD for Down)
Brian O’Higgins – Against

Kerry and Limerick West
Piaras Béaslaí – For
James Crowley – For
Finian Lynch – For
Austin Stack – Against
Con Collins – Against
Edmund Roche – Against
P.S. O’Cahill – Against
Thomas O'Donoghue – Against

Limerick East and City
Richard Hayes – For
William Hayes – For
Kate O’Callaghan – Against
Michael Colivet – Against

Tipperary, Mid, North and South
Séamus Burke – For
Joseph MacDonagh – Against
P.J. Moloney – Against
P.J. Count O’Byrne – Against

Waterford County, City and Tipperary East
Vincent White – For
Cathal Brugha – Against
Séumus Robinson – Against
Eamon Dee – Against

Leinster

Carlow and Kilkenny
W.T. Cosgrave – For
Gearóid O’Sullivan – For
Edward Aylward – Against
James Lennon – Against

Dublin County
Michael Derham – For
Séamus Dwyer – For
Desmond FitzGerald – For
George Gavan Duffy – For
Frank Lawless – For
Margaret Pearse – Against

Dublin City
Philip Cosgrave – For
Joseph McGrath – For
Richard Mulcahy – For
Michael Staines – For
Seán McGarry – For
Daniel McCarthy – For
Charles Murphy – Against
Constance Markievicz – Against
Philip Shanahan – Against
Kathleen Clarke – Against
Sean T. O’Kelly – Against

Kildare and Wicklow
Robert Barton – For
Christopher Byrne – For
Art O’Connor – Against
Domhnall Ua Buachalla – Against
Erskine Childers – Against

Leix and Offaly
Kevin O'Higgins – For
Patrick McCartan – For
Joseph Lynch – For
Francis Bulfin – For

Longford and Westmeath
Joseph McGuinness – For
Seán Mac Eoin – For
Lorcan Robbins – For

Louth and Meath
Eamonn Duggan – For
Peadar Hughes – For
James Murphy – For
Justin McKenna – For
J.J. O’Kelly (Sceilg) – Against

Wexford
Richard Corish – For
James Ryan – Against
Seán Etchingham – Against
Séamus Doyle – Against

Connacht

Galway County
Pádraic Ó Máille – For
Joseph Whelehan – For
George Nicolls – For
Patrick Hogan – For
Bryan Cusack – Against
Frank Fahy – Against
Liam Mellows – Against

Leitrim and Roscommon North
Andrew Lavin – For
Thomas Carter – For
James Dolan – For
George Noble Plunkett – Against

Mayo South and Roscommon South
Daniel O'Rourke – For
William Sears – For
Tom Maguire – Against
Harry Boland – Against

Mayo, North and West
Joseph MacBride – For
Thomas Derrig – Against
John Crowley – Against
P.J. Ruttledge – Against

Sligo and Mayo East
Thomas O'Donnell – For
Alexander McCabe – For
Frank Carty – Against
James Devins – Against
Francis Ferran – Against

Ulster

Cavan County
Arthur Griffith – For (Griffith also represents Fermanagh and Tyrone)
Paul Galligan – For
Seán Milroy – For (Milroy also represents Fermanagh and Tyrone)

Monaghan County
Eoin O'Duffy – For
Ernest Blythe – For
Seán MacEntee– Against

Donegal
Joseph McGinley – For
Patrick McGoldrick – For
Joseph Sweeney – For
Peter Ward – For
Samuel O'Flaherty – Against

National University of Ireland
Prof. Michael Hayes – For
Dr Ada English – Against
Prof. William Stockley – Against

[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.]