Talk:Dublin North (Dáil constituency)

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Split between city and county constituencies
I propose splitting this page to distinguish the 1923 to 1937 city constituency from the 1981 to 2016 County Dublin/Fingal constituency. While constituencies change all the time, these were quite distinct, and combining them in the same page could lead to confusion as to who represented areas historically. These maps show the area of the older constituency. I would call the page of the earlier constituency Dublin City North (Dáil constituency). It was occasionally described as such in the Dáil record, see e.g. Issue of Writ for Dublin City North in 1929. The constituency is then described in the text of the motion as "the Borough Constituency of Dublin North", which goes to why it is simply named as Dublin North in the legislation. The Electoral Act 1923 lists it as Dublin North under Part I on the Borough Constituencies (the division between borough and county constituencies was dropped from 1969). It would be clearer then that the Dublin City North constituency is the predecessor constituency of Dublin North-East and Dublin North-West. I would not propose altering the visible text or blue link on incoming pages, but that Dublin North would link to a different page from Alfie Byrne than from Trevor Sargent. Such changes from other pages can be made through a careful use of the WP:AWB.

This proposal is in conjunction with a parallel proposal on Talk:Dublin South (Dáil constituency). Iveagh Gardens (talk) 10:09, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree with this proposal. Spleodrach (talk) 11:34, 23 July 2022 (UTC)