Background
Andrew Commins was born in Ballybeg, County Carlow and educated at Saint Patrick"s College, Carlow and Queen"s College, Cork where he was awarded an Master of Arts in 1854.
Andrew Commins was born in Ballybeg, County Carlow and educated at Saint Patrick"s College, Carlow and Queen"s College, Cork where he was awarded an Master of Arts in 1854.
Studied at Queen's University Ireland, East. (Rugby Union I.). London University; Master of Arts. Doctor of Laws London.
He became a barrister at Lincoln"s Inn in 1860, working on the Northern Circuit. In 1880 he was elected to parliament for Roscommon representing the Home Rule League, then the Irish Parliamentary Party. From 1885 he sat for the new constituency of Roscommon South.
In a June 1893 by-election he was returned for South East Cork, and sat as Member of Parliament for the constituency until the general election of 1900.
Nationalist.
22nd United Kingdom Parliament. 23rd United Kingdom Parliament. 24th United Kingdom Parliament.
25th United Kingdom Parliament.
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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.