- Eamonn Kissane
Eamonn Kissane (died 20 May 1979) was an Irish teacher, barrister and
Fianna Fáil politician, who served as aTeachta Dála (TD) for 19 years and then as a senator for 14 years.Career
Kissane was first elected to
Dáil Éireann as TD for Kerry at the 1932 general election which began sixteen years of unbroken rule forÉamon de Valera 's Fianna Fáil. In the last months of the10th Dáil , Kissane got his first promotion, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Lands, from February to June 1943. After Fianna Fáil's victory in the 1944 general election, Kissane was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach (the governmentchief whip ) and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence. He served in that position until when Fianna Fáil was defeated at the 1948 general election, when theFirst Inter-Party Government took office.Fianna Fáil won the 1951 general election, but Kissane lost his own Dáil seat in Kerry North. He stood again in Kerry North at the 1954 general election, but was not successful.
After his defeat in 1951, Kissane was
nominated by the Taoiseach to the7th Seanad , and in 1954 he was elected by theCultural and Educational Panel to the8th Seanad . The panel returned him to the next two Seanads, but he did not contest the 1965 election to the11th Seanad , and retired from politics.References
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