Maynooth Through the Ages 2024: Liam Kenny

'From Ballot Box to Council Chamber: Kildare's first County Council elections of 1898', by Liam Kenny.
The 1899 elections achieved notable ‘firsts’ under a number of headings - not least being the first time that women were granted the franchise on the island of Ireland. ‘From Ballot Box to Council Chamber’ focuses on the inaugural Kildare County Council elections of spring 1899 as a case study which was reasonably representative of the elections which took place across Ireland. There is also a contemporary topical note in that local elections are due in June 2024, 125 years after the first local elections in 1899.
[Recorded in Maynooth University Library, 11th March 2024]