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href="/wiki/1921_Irish_elections" title="1921 Irish elections">May 1921</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/East_Cork_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Cork (UK Parliament constituency)">Cork East</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1867-02-02</span>)</span>2 February 1867<br /><a href="/wiki/Castlelyons" title="Castlelyons">Castlelyons</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Cork" title="County Cork">County Cork</a>, Ireland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">16 November 1930<span style="display:none">(1930-11-16)</span> (aged 63)<br />Castlelyons, County Cork, Ireland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>David Rice Kent</b> (also known as David Ceannt; 2 February 1867 – 16 November 1930) was an Irish <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> politician. </p><p>He was born on 2 February 1867 in Coole, <a href="/wiki/Castlelyons" title="Castlelyons">Castlelyons</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Cork" title="County Cork">County Cork</a>, to David Kent and Mary Rice.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 2 May 1916, David Kent, <a href="/wiki/Kent_family_of_Bawnard" title="Kent family of Bawnard">his mother Mrs Rice Kent and three brothers</a>—<a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kent" title="Thomas Kent">Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Kent_(Irish_politician)" title="William Kent (Irish politician)">William</a> and Richard—were involved in a gunfight with members of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Constabulary" title="Royal Irish Constabulary">Royal Irish Constabulary</a> (RIC) during an arrest operation following the <a href="/wiki/Easter_Rising" title="Easter Rising">Easter Rising</a> in Dublin. When the supply of ammunition being loaded by Mrs Rice Kent was at its end, Richard attempted to escape but was shot and died from his wounds within several days. Thomas was not charged with armed rebellion but with "wilful murder", executed by firing squad and buried in the Detention Barracks. David was transferred to Richmond Barracks in Dublin, where he was sentenced to death, though later was reduced to penal servitude for life.<sup id="cite_ref-dib_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dib-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, he was moved to <a href="/wiki/HM_Prison_Pentonville" title="HM Prison Pentonville">Pentonville Prison</a> in England though released from there within the year.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David Kent was elected unopposed as a <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">MP</a> for the <a href="/wiki/East_Cork_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Cork (UK Parliament constituency)">Cork East</a> constituency at the <a href="/wiki/1918_Irish_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1918 Irish general election">1918 general election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-oireachtas_db_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oireachtas_db-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a> and instead assembled at the <a href="/wiki/Mansion_House,_Dublin" title="Mansion House, Dublin">Mansion House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> as a revolutionary parliament called <a href="/wiki/First_D%C3%A1il" title="First Dáil">Dáil Éireann</a>, though Kent did not attend.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin <a href="/wiki/Teachta_D%C3%A1la" title="Teachta Dála">Teachta Dála</a> (TD) for the <a href="/wiki/Cork_East_and_North_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Cork East and North East (Dáil constituency)">Cork East and North East</a> constituency at the <a href="/wiki/1921_Irish_elections" title="1921 Irish elections">1921 elections</a>. He opposed the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty" title="Anglo-Irish Treaty">Anglo-Irish Treaty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Treaty_D%C3%A1il_vote" title="Anglo-Irish Treaty Dáil vote">voted against</a> it. </p><p>He was re-elected for the same constituency at the <a href="/wiki/1922_Irish_general_election" title="1922 Irish general election">1922 general election</a>, this time as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD, and he did not sit in the Dáil from this time onwards. He was elected as a <a href="/wiki/Irish_republicanism" title="Irish republicanism">Republican</a> TD for <a href="/wiki/Cork_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Cork East (Dáil constituency)">Cork East</a> constituency at the <a href="/wiki/1923_Irish_general_election" title="1923 Irish general election">1923 general election</a>. He was elected as one of five Sinn Féin TDs at the <a href="/wiki/June_1927_Irish_general_election" title="June 1927 Irish general election">June 1927 general election</a>. He did not contest the <a href="/wiki/September_1927_Irish_general_election" title="September 1927 Irish general election">September 1927 general election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-elecs_irl_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elecs_irl-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His brother <a href="/wiki/William_Kent_(Irish_politician)" title="William Kent (Irish politician)">William Kent</a> was also a TD in the 1920s and 1930s. </p><p>He died on 16 November 1930 at Bawnard, Castlelyons, County Cork.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Kent_(politician)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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See <a href="/wiki/Cork_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Cork East (Dáil constituency)">Cork East</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cork_North_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Cork North (Dáil constituency)">Cork North</a></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Teachtaí_Dála_(TDs)_for_the_Cork_East_constituency" style="white-space:normal !important;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Cork_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)/TDs" title="Template:Cork East (Dáil constituency)/TDs"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Cork_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)/TDs" title="Template talk:Cork East (Dáil constituency)/TDs"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Cork_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)/TDs" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Cork East (Dáil constituency)/TDs"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Teachtaí_Dála_(TDs)_for_the_Cork_East_constituency" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Teachta_D%C3%A1la" title="Teachta Dála">Teachtaí Dála</a> (TDs) for the <a href="/wiki/Cork_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Cork East (Dáil constituency)">Cork East</a> constituency</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd wraplinks" style="width:100%;padding:0;white-space:normal !important"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This table is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/Cork_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Cork East (Dáil constituency)">Cork East (Dáil constituency)</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cork_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cork_East_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; max-width:95% !important; !important; white-space:normal !important;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Dáil</th> <th>Election</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party)</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party)</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party)</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party)</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party) </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">4th</td> <td>1923 </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit; background-color:#DDDDDD"></td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/John_Daly_(Irish_politician)" title="John Daly (Irish politician)">John Daly</a><br />(Ind) </td> <td rowspan="4" style="color:inherit; background-color:#87CEFA"></td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Hennessy" title="Michael Hennessy">Michael Hennessy</a><br />(CnaG) </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit; background-color:#008800"></td> <td rowspan="2"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">David Kent</a><br />(Rep) </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit; background-color:#B8860B"></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/John_Dinneen" title="John Dinneen">John Dinneen</a><br />(FP) </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#87CEFA"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_O%27Mahony" title="Thomas O'Mahony">Thomas O'Mahony</a><br />(CnaG) </td></tr> <tr> <td><i> 1924 by-election</i> </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#87CEFA"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_K._Noonan" title="Michael K. Noonan">Michael K. Noonan</a><br />(CnaG) </td></tr> <tr> <td>5th</td> <td>1927 (Jun) </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#326760"></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">David Kent</a><br />(SF) </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#B8860B"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_O%27Gorman" title="David O'Gorman">David O'Gorman</a><br />(FP) </td> <td rowspan="4" style="color:inherit; background-color:#66BB66"></td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Corry_(politician)" title="Martin Corry (politician)">Martin Corry</a><br />(FF) </td></tr> <tr> <td>6th</td> <td>1927 (Sep) </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit; background-color:#87CEFA"></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/John_Daly_(Irish_politician)" title="John Daly (Irish politician)">John Daly</a><br />(CnaG) </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#66BB66"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Kent_(Irish_politician)" title="William Kent (Irish politician)">William Kent</a><br />(FF) </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#87CEFA"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edmond_Carey" title="Edmond Carey">Edmond Carey</a><br />(CnaG) </td></tr> <tr> <td>7th</td> <td>1932 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit; background-color:#87CEFA"></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/William_Broderick" title="William Broderick">William Broderick</a><br />(CnaG) </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#DDDDDD"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brook_Brasier" title="Brook Brasier">Brook Brasier</a><br />(Ind) </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit; background-color:#66BB66"></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Murphy_(Irish_politician)" title="Patrick Murphy (Irish politician)">Patrick Murphy</a><br />(FF) </td></tr> <tr> <td>8th</td> <td>1933 </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#87CEFA"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Daly" title="Patrick Daly">Patrick Daly</a><br />(CnaG) </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#0000FF"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Kent_(Irish_politician)" title="William Kent (Irish politician)">William Kent</a><br />(NCP) </td></tr> <tr> <td>9th</td> <td>1937 </td> <td colspan="10"><i>Constituency abolished</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; max-width:95% !important; !important; white-space:normal !important;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Dáil</th> <th>Election</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party)</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party)</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party) </th></tr> <tr> <td>13th</td> <td>1948 </td> <td rowspan="5" style="color:inherit; background-color:#66BB66"></td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Corry_(politician)" title="Martin Corry (politician)">Martin Corry</a><br />(FF) </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit; background-color:#6699FF"></td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Patrick_O%27Gorman" title="Patrick O'Gorman">Patrick O'Gorman</a><br />(FG) </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit; background-color:#CC0000"></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_Keane_(Irish_politician)" title="Seán Keane (Irish politician)">Seán Keane</a><br />(Lab) </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">14th</td> <td>1951 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i> 1953 by-election</i> </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit; background-color:#6699FF"></td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Barry_(Irish_politician)" title="Richard Barry (Irish politician)">Richard Barry</a><br />(FG) </td></tr> <tr> <td>15th</td> <td>1954 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit; background-color:#66BB66"></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/John_Moher" title="John Moher">John Moher</a><br />(FF) </td></tr> <tr> <td>16th</td> <td>1957 </td></tr> <tr> <td>17th</td> <td>1961 </td> <td colspan="6"><i>Constituency abolished</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; max-width:95% !important; !important; white-space:normal !important;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Dáil</th> <th>Election</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party)</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party)</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party)</th> <th colspan="2">Deputy<br />(Party) </th></tr> <tr> <td>22nd</td> <td>1981 </td> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#66BB66"></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carey_Joyce" title="Carey Joyce">Carey Joyce</a><br />(FF) </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit; background-color:#6699FF"></td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Myra_Barry" title="Myra Barry">Myra Barry</a><br />(FG) </td> <td rowspan="4" style="color:inherit; background-color:#6699FF"></td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Hegarty" title="Patrick Hegarty">Patrick Hegarty</a><br />(FG) </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit; background-color:#D73D3D"></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Sherlock" title="Joe Sherlock">Joe Sherlock</a><br />(SF–WP) </td></tr> <tr> <td>23rd</td> <td>1982 (Feb) </td> <td rowspan="8" style="color:inherit; background-color:#66BB66"></td> <td rowspan="8"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ahern_(Irish_politician)" title="Michael Ahern (Irish politician)">Michael Ahern</a><br />(FF) </td></tr> <tr> <td>24th</td> <td>1982 (Nov) </td> <td rowspan="7" style="color:inherit; background-color:#66BB66"></td> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/Ned_O%27Keeffe" title="Ned O'Keeffe">Ned O'Keeffe</a><br />(FF) </td></tr> <tr> <td>25th</td> <td>1987 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="color:inherit; background-color:#930C1A"></td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Sherlock" title="Joe Sherlock">Joe Sherlock</a><br />(WP) </td></tr> <tr> <td>26th</td> <td>1989 </td> <td rowspan="3" style="color:inherit; 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