Andrew Commins

Dr Andrew Commins (1829[1] – 7 January 1916) was an Irish lawyer and politician.

[3] In 1876, he was elected as an Irish Home Rule Councillor to Liverpool Town Council to represent the Vauxhall ward which he continued to represent until 1892, [4][5][6][7][8][9] when he was elected as an alderman, a post he continued to hold until his resignation in 1913.

[10][11][12][13][14] In 1880, he was elected to parliament for Roscommon representing the Home Rule League, then the Irish Parliamentary Party.

In the Parnell split of 1891, he was a member of the majority Anti-Parnellite group, and in the general election of 1892 lost his seat to a Parnellite candidate.

In a June 1893 by-election he was returned for South East Cork, and sat as MP for the constituency until the general election of 1900.