Tomás Ó Deirg

Tomás Ó Deirg

Tomás Ó Deirg ( _en. Thomas Derrig; 26 November 1897 – 19 November 1956) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

Ó Deirg was born on 26 November 1897, in County Mayo. He was educated locally and at University College, Galway. During his time in college he organised a corps of the Irish Volunteers. After the 1916 Easter Rising he was arrested and imprisoned. After his release he graduated from college and became headmaster in a technical college in Mayo. During the War of Independence Ó Deirg was interned at the Curragh. While there he was elected a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for Mayo North and West.

Ó Deirg took the republican side after the Irish Civil War. He was later captured by the Irish Free State army. At the 1927 general election he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow-Kilkenny. In Éamon de Valera's first government in 1932 Ó Deirg was appointed Minister for Education. From 1939 to 1943 he served as Minister for Lands. He was re-appointed to Education in 1943 until 1948. Between 1951 and 1954 he became Minister for Lands again.

Tomás Ó Deirg died in Dublin on 19 November 1956, seven days before his 59th birthday.

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