- Joseph MacDonagh
Joseph MacDonagh (died 25 December 1922) was an Irish
Sinn Féin politician.He was elected unopposed as a
Sinn Féin MP for the Tipperary North constituency in the 1918 general election. In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise theParliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House inDublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though MacDonagh did not attend as he was in prison. [cite web |url=http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/DT/D.F.O.191901210004.html|language=Irish|title=Roll call of the first sitting of the First Dáil|work=Dáil Éireann Historical Debates|date=1919-01-19|accessdate=2008-03-29] He was elected unopposed as a Sinn FéinTeachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency in the 1921 elections. He was Director of the "Belfast Boycott", an attempt in 1920-21 toboycott goods fromUlster that were being imported into the south of Ireland.He opposed the
Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. He was re-elected for the same constituency in the 1922 general election, this time as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD, but he did not take his seat in the Dáil. He died on hunger strike on Christmas Day 1922.References
*Oireachtas-database|1=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=1&MemberID=665&ConstID=171
External links
* [http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=8655 Joseph MacDonagh's electoral history] (ElectionsIreland.org)
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