# 14th Dáil

The 14th Dáil was elected at the 1951 general election on 30 May 1951 and met on 13 June 1951. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature), of Ireland are known as TDs. It sat with the 7th Seanad as the two Houses of the Oireachtas.
On 24 April 1954, President Seán T. O'Kelly dissolved the Dáil at the request of the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. The 14th Dáil lasted 2 years, 315 days.

## Composition of the 14th Dáil

| Party | Party | May 1951 | Apr. 1954 |
| ● | Fianna Fáil | 69 | 70 |
| | Fine Gael | 40 | 42 |
| | Labour | 16 | 14 |
| | Clann na Talmhan | 6 | 6 |
| | Clann na Poblachta | 2 | 2 |
| | Independent | 14 | 11 |
| | Ceann Comhairle | — | 1 |
Fianna Fáil, denoted with a bullet (●), formed the 6th government of Ireland.

### Graphical representation

This is a graphical comparison of party strengths in the 14th Dáil from June 1951. This was not the official seating plan.

## Ceann Comhairle

On the meeting of the Dáil, Patrick Hogan (Lab) was proposed as Ceann Comhairle by John A. Costello (FG) and seconded by Joseph Blowick (CnaT). His election was approved without a vote. Hogan had served as Leas-Cheann Comhairle from 1927 to 1928, from 1932 to 1938 and from 1948 to 1951.

## TDs by constituency

The list of the 147 TDs elected is given in alphabetical order by Dáil constituency.
Members of the 14th Dáil :
| Constituency | Name | Party |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | Patrick Crotty | Fine Gael |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | Joseph Hughes | Fine Gael |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | Francis Humphreys | Fianna Fáil |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | Thomas Derrig | Fianna Fáil |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | Thomas Walsh | Fianna Fáil |
| Cavan | Patrick O'Reilly | Fine Gael |
| Cavan | Michael Sheridan | Fianna Fáil |
| Cavan | Paddy Smith | Fianna Fáil |
| Cavan | John Tully | Clann na Poblachta |
| Clare | Éamon de Valera | Fianna Fáil |
| Clare | Patrick Hillery | Fianna Fáil |
| Clare | Patrick Hogan | Labour |
| Clare | William Murphy | Fine Gael |
| Cork Borough | James Hickey | Labour |
| Cork Borough | Seán McCarthy | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork Borough | Patrick McGrath | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork Borough | Jack Lynch | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork Borough | Thomas F. O'Higgins | Fine Gael |
| Cork East | Martin Corry | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork East | Seán Keane | Labour |
| Cork East | Patrick O'Gorman | Fine Gael |
| Cork North | Patrick McAuliffe | Labour |
| Cork North | Seán Moylan | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork North | Denis O'Sullivan | Fine Gael |
| Cork South | Seán Buckley | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork South | Dan Desmond | Labour |
| Cork South | Patrick Lehane | Independent |
| Cork West | Seán Collins | Fine Gael |
| Cork West | Michael Pat Murphy | Labour |
| Cork West | Timothy O'Sullivan | Fianna Fáil |
| Donegal East | Neil Blaney | Fianna Fáil |
| Donegal East | Liam Cunningham | Fianna Fáil |
| Donegal East | Daniel McMenamin | Fine Gael |
| Donegal East | William Sheldon | Independent |
| Donegal West | Joseph Brennan | Fianna Fáil |
| Donegal West | Cormac Breslin | Fianna Fáil |
| Donegal West | Patrick O'Donnell | Fine Gael |
| Dublin County | Patrick Burke | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin County | Seán Dunne | Labour |
| Dublin County | Éamon Rooney | Fine Gael |
| Dublin North-Central | Vivion de Valera | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin North-Central | Colm Gallagher | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin North-Central | Patrick McGilligan | Fine Gael |
| Dublin North-East | Jack Belton | Fine Gael |
| Dublin North-East | Alfie Byrne | Independent |
| Dublin North-East | Harry Colley | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin North-East | Peadar Cowan | Independent |
| Dublin North-East | Oscar Traynor | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin North-West | Cormac Breathnach | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin North-West | A. P. Byrne | Independent |
| Dublin North-West | Declan Costello | Fine Gael |
| Dublin South-Central | Philip Brady | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin South-Central | Maurice E. Dockrell | Fine Gael |
| Dublin South-Central | James Larkin Jnr | Labour |
| Dublin South-Central | Seán Lemass | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin South-Central | John McCann | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin South-East | John A. Costello | Fine Gael |
| Dublin South-East | Noël Browne | Independent |
| Dublin South-East | Seán MacEntee | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin South-West | Robert Briscoe | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin South-West | Bernard Butler | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin South-West | Peadar Doyle | Fine Gael |
| Dublin South-West | Michael ffrench-O'Carroll | Independent |
| Dublin South-West | Seán MacBride | Clann na Poblachta |
| Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown | Seán Brady | Fianna Fáil |
| Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown | Liam Cosgrave | Fine Gael |
| Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown | H. Percy Dockrell | Fine Gael |
| Galway North | Michael Donnellan | Clann na Talmhan |
| Galway North | James Hession | Fine Gael |
| Galway North | Mark Killilea Snr | Fianna Fáil |
| Galway South | Patrick Beegan | Fianna Fáil |
| Galway South | Patrick Cawley | Fine Gael |
| Galway South | Frank Fahy | Fianna Fáil |
| Galway West | Gerald Bartley | Fianna Fáil |
| Galway West | Peadar Duignan | Fianna Fáil |
| Galway West | John Mannion Snr | Fine Gael |
| Kerry North | John Lynch | Fine Gael |
| Kerry North | Patrick Finucane | Independent |
| Kerry North | Tom McEllistrim | Fianna Fáil |
| Kerry North | Dan Spring | Labour |
| Kerry South | Honor Crowley | Fianna Fáil |
| Kerry South | John Flynn | Independent |
| Kerry South | Patrick Palmer | Fine Gael |
| Kildare | Thomas Harris | Fianna Fáil |
| Kildare | William Norton | Labour |
| Kildare | Gerard Sweetman | Fine Gael |
| Leix–Offaly | Patrick Boland | Fianna Fáil |
| Leix–Offaly | William Davin | Labour |
| Leix–Offaly | Oliver J. Flanagan | Independent |
| Leix–Offaly | Peadar Maher | Fianna Fáil |
| Leix–Offaly | Tom O'Higgins | Fine Gael |
| Limerick East | Daniel Bourke | Fianna Fáil |
| Limerick East | Tadhg Crowley | Fianna Fáil |
| Limerick East | Michael Keyes | Labour |
| Limerick East | James Reidy | Fine Gael |
| Limerick West | James Collins | Fianna Fáil |
| Limerick West | David Madden | Fine Gael |
| Limerick West | Donnchadh Ó Briain | Fianna Fáil |
| Longford–Westmeath | Frank Carter | Fianna Fáil |
| Longford–Westmeath | Erskine H. Childers | Fianna Fáil |
| Longford–Westmeath | Charles Fagan | Independent |
| Longford–Westmeath | Michael Kennedy | Fianna Fáil |
| Longford–Westmeath | Seán Mac Eoin | Fine Gael |
| Louth | Frank Aiken | Fianna Fáil |
| Louth | James Coburn | Fine Gael |
| Louth | Laurence Walsh | Fianna Fáil |
| Mayo North | Patrick Browne | Fine Gael |
| Mayo North | Thomas O'Hara | Clann na Talmhan |
| Mayo North | P. J. Ruttledge | Fianna Fáil |
| Mayo South | Joseph Blowick | Clann na Talmhan |
| Mayo South | Dominick Cafferky | Clann na Talmhan |
| Mayo South | Seán Flanagan | Fianna Fáil |
| Mayo South | Mícheál Ó Móráin | Fianna Fáil |
| Meath | Patrick Giles | Fine Gael |
| Meath | Michael Hilliard | Fianna Fáil |
| Meath | Matthew O'Reilly | Fianna Fáil |
| Monaghan | James Dillon | Independent |
| Monaghan | Patrick Maguire | Fianna Fáil |
| Monaghan | Bridget Rice | Fianna Fáil |
| Roscommon | John Beirne | Clann na Talmhan |
| Roscommon | Gerald Boland | Fianna Fáil |
| Roscommon | John Finan | Clann na Talmhan |
| Roscommon | Jack McQuillan | Independent |
| Sligo–Leitrim | Stephen Flynn | Fianna Fáil |
| Sligo–Leitrim | Eugene Gilbride | Fianna Fáil |
| Sligo–Leitrim | Mary Reynolds | Fine Gael |
| Sligo–Leitrim | Joseph Roddy | Fine Gael |
| Sligo–Leitrim | Patrick Rogers | Fine Gael |
| Tipperary North | John Fanning | Fianna Fáil |
| Tipperary North | Daniel Morrissey | Fine Gael |
| Tipperary North | Mary Ryan | Fianna Fáil |
| Tipperary South | Dan Breen | Fianna Fáil |
| Tipperary South | Patrick Crowe | Fine Gael |
| Tipperary South | Michael Davern | Fianna Fáil |
| Tipperary South | Richard Mulcahy | Fine Gael |
| Waterford | Thomas Kyne | Labour |
| Waterford | Patrick Little | Fianna Fáil |
| Waterford | John Ormonde | Fianna Fáil |
| Waterford | Bridget Redmond | Fine Gael |
| Wexford | Denis Allen | Fianna Fáil |
| Wexford | Brendan Corish | Labour |
| Wexford | Anthony Esmonde | Fine Gael |
| Wexford | John O'Leary | Labour |
| Wexford | James Ryan | Fianna Fáil |
| Wicklow | Thomas Brennan | Fianna Fáil |
| Wicklow | Patrick Cogan | Independent |
| Wicklow | James Everett | Labour |

## Changes

| Date | Constituency | Loss | Gain | Note |
| 13 June 1951 | Clare | Labour | Ceann Comhairle | Patrick Hogan takes office as Ceann Comhairle |
| 13 April 1952 | Limerick East | Fianna Fáil | | Death of Daniel Bourke |
| 3 May 1952 | Waterford | Fine Gael | | Death of Bridget Redmond |
| 8 May 1952 | Mayo North | Fianna Fáil | | Death of P. J. Ruttledge |
| 26 June 1952 | Limerick East | | Fine Gael | John Carew wins the seat vacated by the death of Bourke |
| 26 June 1952 | Waterford | | Fianna Fáil | William Kenneally wins the seat vacated by the death of Redmond |
| 26 June 1952 | Mayo North | | Fianna Fáil | Phelim Calleary holds the seat vacated by the death of Ruttledge |
| 26 July 1952 | Dublin North-West | Independent | | Death of A. P. Byrne |
| 12 November 1952 | Dublin North-West | | Independent | Thomas Byrne holds the seat vacated by the death of his brother A. P. Byrne |
| 22 January 1953 | Wicklow | Fianna Fáil | | Death of Thomas Brennan |
| 29 March 1953 | Cork East | Labour | | Death of Seán Keane |
| 18 June 1953 | Wicklow | | Fine Gael | Mark Deering gains the seat vacated by the death of Brennan |
| 18 June 1953 | Cork East | | Fine Gael | Richard Barry wins the seat vacated by the death of Keane |
| 12 July 1953 | Galway South | Fianna Fáil | | Death of Frank Fahy |
| 21 August 1953 | Galway South | | Fianna Fáil | Robert Lahiffe holds the seat vacated by the death of Fahy |
| 28 October 1953 | Dublin South-East | Independent | Fianna Fáil | Noël Browne joins Fianna Fáil |
| 28 October 1953 | Dublin South-West | Independent | Fianna Fáil | Michael ffrench-O'Carroll joins Fianna Fáil |
| 28 October 1953 | Wicklow | Independent | Fianna Fáil | Patrick Cogan joins Fianna Fáil |
| 1 November 1953 | Cork Borough | Fine Gael | | Death of Thomas F. O'Higgins (FG) |
| 5 December 1953 | Louth | Fine Gael | | Death of James Coburn |
| 3 March 1954 | Cork Borough | | Fine Gael | Stephen Barrett holds the seat vacated by the death of O'Higgins |
| 3 March 1954 | Louth | | Fine Gael | George Coburn holds the seat vacated by the death of his father James Coburn |