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This dataset details those eligible to vote in Ireland after the electorate had been greatly increased following the Great Reform Act of 1832. It contains over 52,600 names, details of occupations, addresses and entitlement criteria to vote.
The information in this dataset comes from the Report of the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes, 1837-38, which form one of the great untapped resources for the study of the Irish electorate in the 1830s.
The Select Committee was set up in the aftermath of Daniel O'Connell's election to Parliament in 1832, when there had been widespread accusations of corruption and illegal voting. The Commissioners of Police and Magistrates throughout Ireland were charged with creating what amounted to an electoral register for those entitled to vote in Ireland between 1832 and 1837 under the terms of the Reform Act. This Electoral Registers for Ireland 1832-38 dataset comprises a computerised index of all names included in the 900 pages of appendices and indexes pages to the Select Committee Report, linked to digitised images of these pages. (The minutes of evidence given to the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes are not included.)
