ABSTRACT
The aim of the Political Studies Association of Ireland is to promote the professional study of politics in and of Ireland, and the aim of the series is to make more widely available material that is at present difficult to obtain. The first volume, published in 1993, covered the elections of 1922–1944, for which no officially published results existed. The first election for which an official result was published was the by-election in Kerry South in November 1944, and the results of all subsequent by-elections and general elections have been published by the Stationery Office, Dublin, based on figures collated by the Department of the Environment. During the period 1922–2008, Dail Eireann was elected at contested elections held under the proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote electoral system. The parliament elected in 1922 was the third Dail; the first two Dala were elected during the struggle for independence from Britain.
