# 6th Dáil

The 6th Dáil was elected at the September 1927 general election on 15 September 1927 and met on 11 October 1927. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of the Irish Free State, are known as TDs. It was one of two houses of the Oireachtas, sitting with the First Seanad constituted as the 1925 Seanad, the 1928 Seanad and the 1931 Seanad. The 6th Dáil was dissolved on 29 January 1932 by Governor-General James McNeill, at the request of the President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave. The 6th Dáil lasted 4 years, 110 days.

## Composition of the 6th Dáil

| Party | Party | Sep. 1927 | Jan. 1932 |
| ● | Cumann na nGaedheal | 62 | 64 |
| | Fianna Fáil | 57 | 56 |
| | Labour | 13 | 10 |
| | Farmers' Party | 6 | 6 |
| | National League | 2 | — |
| | Irish Worker League | 1 | 0 |
| | Independent | 12 | 14 |
| | Ceann Comhairle | — | 1 |
| | Vacant | — | 2 |
Government party denoted with bullet (●)

### Graphical representation

This is a graphical comparison of party strengths in the 6th Dáil from October 1927. This was not the official seating plan.

## Ceann Comhairle

On 11 October 1927, Michael Hayes (CnaG), who had been Ceann Comhairle since 1922, was proposed by W. T. Cosgrave and seconded by Thomas Johnson for the position, and was elected without a vote.
On 27 October 1927, Patrick Hogan (Lab) was proposed by Thomas J. O'Connell and Hugh Colohan as Leas-Cheann Comhairle. He was elected by a vote of 91 to 58. On 8 March 1928, Hogan resigned. On 2 May 1928, Daniel Morrissey (Lab) was elected as Leas-Cheann Comhairle on a vote of 79 to 49.

## TDs by constituency

The list of the 153 TDs elected, listed by Dáil constituency.
Members of the 6th Dáil :
| Constituency | Name | Party |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | W. T. Cosgrave | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | Peter de Loughry | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | Edward Doyle | Labour |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | Thomas Derrig | Fianna Fáil |
| Carlow–Kilkenny | Richard Holohan | Farmers' Party |
| Cavan | John James Cole | Independent |
| Cavan | John O'Hanlon | Independent |
| Cavan | John Joe O'Reilly | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Cavan | Paddy Smith | Fianna Fáil |
| Clare | Éamon de Valera | Fianna Fáil |
| Clare | Patrick Hogan | Labour |
| Clare | Patrick Houlihan | Fianna Fáil |
| Clare | Patrick Kelly | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Clare | Martin Sexton | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork Borough | Richard Anthony | Labour |
| Cork Borough | W. T. Cosgrave | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Cork Borough | Barry Egan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Cork Borough | Hugo Flinn | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork Borough | Seán French | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork East | Edmond Carey | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Cork East | Martin Corry | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork East | John Daly | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Cork East | Michael Hennessy | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Cork East | William Kent | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork North | Daniel Corkery | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork North | Daniel O'Leary | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Cork North | Daniel Vaughan | Farmers' Party |
| Cork West | Thomas Mullins | Fianna Fáil |
| Cork West | Timothy J. Murphy | Labour |
| Cork West | Timothy O'Donovan | Farmers' Party |
| Cork West | Timothy Sheehy | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Cork West | Jasper Wolfe | Independent |
| Donegal | Neal Blaney | Fianna Fáil |
| Donegal | Frank Carney | Fianna Fáil |
| Donegal | Archie Cassidy | Labour |
| Donegal | Eugene Doherty | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Donegal | Hugh Law | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Donegal | Michael Óg McFadden | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Donegal | John White | Farmers' Party |
| Donegal | James Myles | Independent |
| Dublin North | Alfie Byrne | Independent |
| Dublin North | John Byrne | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin North | Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin North | Eamonn Cooney | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin North | James Larkin | Irish Worker League |
| Dublin North | Patrick Leonard | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin North | Richard Mulcahy | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin North | Seán T. O'Kelly | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin South | James Beckett | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin South | Robert Briscoe | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin South | Peadar Doyle | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin South | Thomas Hennessy | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin South | Myles Keogh | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin South | Frank Kerlin | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin South | Seán Lemass | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin County | Seán Brady | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin County | Bryan Cooper | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin County | Desmond FitzGerald | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin County | John Good | Independent |
| Dublin County | Seán MacEntee | Fianna Fáil |
| Dublin County | Joseph Murphy | Independent |
| Dublin County | Batt O'Connor | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin County | Gearóid O'Sullivan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Dublin University | Ernest Alton | Independent |
| Dublin University | James Craig | Independent |
| Dublin University | William Thrift | Independent |
| Galway | Seán Broderick | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Galway | Frank Fahy | Fianna Fáil |
| Galway | Patrick Hogan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Galway | Stephen Jordan | Fianna Fáil |
| Galway | Mark Killilea Snr | Fianna Fáil |
| Galway | Martin McDonogh | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Galway | Joseph Mongan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Galway | Thomas Powell | Fianna Fáil |
| Galway | Seán Tubridy | Fianna Fáil |
| Kerry | Frederick Crowley | Fianna Fáil |
| Kerry | James Crowley | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Kerry | Fionán Lynch | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Kerry | Tom McEllistrim | Fianna Fáil |
| Kerry | William O'Leary | Fianna Fáil |
| Kerry | Thomas O'Reilly | Fianna Fáil |
| Kerry | John O'Sullivan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Kildare | Hugh Colohan | Labour |
| Kildare | Domhnall Ua Buachalla | Fianna Fáil |
| Kildare | George Wolfe | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Leitrim–Sligo | James Dolan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Leitrim–Sligo | Frank Carty | Fianna Fáil |
| Leitrim–Sligo | John Hennigan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Leitrim–Sligo | Samuel Holt | Fianna Fáil |
| Leitrim–Sligo | Bernard Maguire | Fianna Fáil |
| Leitrim–Sligo | Patrick Reynolds | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Leitrim–Sligo | Martin Roddy | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Leix–Offaly | William Aird | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Leix–Offaly | Patrick Boland | Fianna Fáil |
| Leix–Offaly | William Davin | Labour |
| Leix–Offaly | James Dwyer | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Leix–Offaly | Patrick Gorry | Fianna Fáil |
| Limerick | George C. Bennett | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Limerick | Daniel Bourke | Fianna Fáil |
| Limerick | Patrick Clancy | Labour |
| Limerick | James Colbert | Fianna Fáil |
| Limerick | Tadhg Crowley | Fianna Fáil |
| Limerick | John Nolan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Limerick | Richard O'Connell | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Longford–Westmeath | Henry Broderick | Labour |
| Longford–Westmeath | Michael Connolly | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Longford–Westmeath | Michael Kennedy | Fianna Fáil |
| Longford–Westmeath | James Killane | Fianna Fáil |
| Longford–Westmeath | Patrick Shaw | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Louth | Frank Aiken | Fianna Fáil |
| Louth | James Coburn | National League |
| Louth | James Murphy | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Mayo North | Micheál Clery | Fianna Fáil |
| Mayo North | Michael Davis | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Mayo North | Mark Henry | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Mayo North | P. J. Ruttledge | Fianna Fáil |
| Mayo South | James FitzGerald-Kenney | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Mayo South | Michael Kilroy | Fianna Fáil |
| Mayo South | Martin Nally | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Mayo South | Thomas J. O'Connell | Labour |
| Mayo South | Richard Walsh | Fianna Fáil |
| Meath | Eamonn Duggan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Meath | Arthur Matthews | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Meath | Matthew O'Reilly | Fianna Fáil |
| Monaghan | Ernest Blythe | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Monaghan | Alexander Haslett | Independent |
| Monaghan | Conn Ward | Fianna Fáil |
| National University | Michael Hayes | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| National University | Patrick McGilligan | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| National University | Michael Tierney | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Roscommon | Gerald Boland | Fianna Fáil |
| Roscommon | Michael Brennan | Independent |
| Roscommon | Martin Conlon | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Roscommon | Patrick O'Dowd | Fianna Fáil |
| Tipperary | Séamus Burke | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Tipperary | Andrew Fogarty | Fianna Fáil |
| Tipperary | Seán Hayes | Fianna Fáil |
| Tipperary | John Hassett | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Tipperary | Michael Heffernan | Farmers' Party |
| Tipperary | Daniel Morrissey | Labour |
| Tipperary | Timothy Sheehy | Fianna Fáil |
| Waterford | Seán Goulding | Fianna Fáil |
| Waterford | Patrick Little | Fianna Fáil |
| Waterford | William Redmond | National League |
| Waterford | Vincent White | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Wexford | Denis Allen | Fianna Fáil |
| Wexford | Richard Corish | Labour |
| Wexford | Osmond Esmonde | Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Wexford | Michael Jordan | Farmers' Party |
| Wexford | James Ryan | Fianna Fáil |
| Wicklow | James Everett | Labour |
| Wicklow | Séamus Moore | Fianna Fáil |
| Wicklow | Dermot O'Mahony | Cumann na nGaedheal |

## Changes

| Date | Constituency | Loss | Gain | Note |
| 15 September 1927 | Dublin North | Irish Worker League | | James Larkin disqualified due to bankruptcy. |
| 11 October 1927 | National University | Cumann na nGaedheal | Ceann Comhairle | Michael Hayes takes office as Ceann Comhairle |
| 12 October 1927 | Carlow–Kilkenny | Cumann na nGaedheal | | W. T. Cosgrave resigns to sit for Cork Borough |
| 3 November 1927 | Carlow–Kilkenny | | Cumann na nGaedheal | Denis Gorey holds the seat vacated by Cosgrave |
| 3 April 1928 | Dublin North | | Cumann na nGaedheal | Vincent Rice gains the seat vacated by Larkin |
| 20 February 1929 | Dublin North | Independent | | Alfie Byrne elected to Seanad Éireann |
| 14 March 1929 | Dublin North | | Cumann na nGaedheal | Thomas F. O'Higgins gains seat vacated by Byrne |
| 18 April 1929 | Leitrim–Sligo | Fianna Fáil | | Death of Samuel Holt |
| 26 April 1930 | Longford–Westmeath | Fianna Fáil | | Death of James Killane |
| 7 June 1929 | Leitrim–Sligo | | Cumann na nGaedheal | Seán Mac Eoin gains the seat vacated by the death of Holt |
| 13 June 1930 | Longford–Westmeath | | Fianna Fáil | James Geoghegan holds the seat vacated by the death of Killane |
| 5 July 1930 | Dublin County | Cumann na nGaedheal | | Death of Bryan Cooper |
| 28 October 1930 | Cork West | Fianna Fáil | Independent | Thomas Mullins expelled from the party |
| 9 December 1930 | Dublin County | | Cumann na nGaedheal | Thomas Finlay holds the seat vacated by the death of Cooper |
| 15 April 1931 | Kildare | Labour | | Death of Hugh Colohan |
| 29 June 1931 | Kildare | | Fianna Fáil | Thomas Harris gains the seat vacated by the death of Colohan |
| July 1931 | Waterford | National League | Cumann na nGaedheal | William Redmond joins Cumann na nGaedheal on the disbandment of the National League |
| July 1931 | Louth | National League | Independent | James Coburn becomes an Independent TD on the disbandment of the National League |
| 23 October 1931 | Carlow–Kilkenny | Cumann na nGaedheal | | Death of Peter de Loughry |
| 24 October 1931 | Cork Borough | Labour | Independent | Richard Anthony expelled for voting in favour of the Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Bill |
| 24 October 1931 | Tipperary | Labour | Independent | Daniel Morrissey expelled for voting in favour of the Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Bill |
| 31 October 1931 | Leix–Offaly | Cumann na nGaedheal | | Death of William Aird |
| 17 January 1932 | Roscommon | Independent | Cumann na nGaedheal | Michael Brennan selected for Cumann na nGaedheal |