1888 Limerick City by-election

The Limerick by-election, 1888 was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of Limerick City on 17 April 1888. The vacancy arose because of the resignation of the sitting member, Henry Joseph Gill of the Irish Parliamentary Party. In the resulting by-election another Irish Parliamentary Party candidate, Francis Arthur O'Keefe, a solicitor and Mayor of Limerick, was elected unopposed.[1][2]

References

1. The Times, 18 April 1888.
2. The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 194 (218 in web page)