The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, James Joseph O'Kelly.
The election was contested by Thomas Devine, standing for the Irish Parliamentary Party, who was expected to win comfortably, and Jasper Tully, a local newspaper owner who was running as an independent.
Count Plunkett was proposed by John J. O'Kelly (Sceilg), P. T. Keohane and Fr.
O'Flanagan was main organiser of the election, assisted by Larry Ginnell, and many others who came from Dublin to take on the Irish Parliamentary Party.
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