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Joseph MacDonagh

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Joseph MacDonagh
Teachta Dála
In office
May 1921 – 25 December 1922
ConstituencyTipperary Mid, North and South
In office
December 1918 – May 1921
ConstituencyTipperary North
Personal details
Born(1883-05-18)18 May 1883
Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, Ireland
Died25 December 1922(1922-12-25) (aged 39)
County Tipperary, Ireland
Political partySinn Féin
Spouse
Margaret O'Toole
(m. 1913)
Children3
Relatives
EducationRockwell College
British Army intelligence file for Joseph McDonagh
British Army intelligence file for Joseph McDonagh

Joseph Michael MacDonagh (18 May 1883 – 25 December 1922) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician.

He was born in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary. His parents Joseph MacDonagh and Mary Parker were both national schoolteachers.[1] His brothers included the executed 1916 Easter Rising leader Thomas MacDonagh and film director John MacDonagh. He was educated in his father's school in Cloughjordan, and at Rockwell College.[1]

He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin MP for the Tipperary North constituency at the 1918 general election.[2] In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though MacDonagh did not attend as he was in prison.[3] He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency at the 1921 elections. He also served as an alderman of Rathmines and Rathgar Urban District Council and Dublin Corporation between 1920 and 1922.

He was Director of the Belfast Boycott, an attempt in 1920–1921 to boycott goods from Ulster 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 at the 1922 general election as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD, but he did not take his seat in the Dáil.[4] He died, while on hunger strike, from the effects of a burst appendix, on 25 December 1922.

References

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  1. ^ a b White, Lawrence William. "MacDonagh, Joseph". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Joseph MacDonagh". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  3. ^ "Roll call of the first sitting of the First Dáil". Dáil Éireann Historical Debates (in Irish). 21 January 1919. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
  4. ^ "Joseph MacDonagh". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Tipperary North
1918–1922
Constituency abolished
Oireachtas
New constituency Teachta Dála for Tipperary North
1918–1921
Constituency abolished