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Monday, August 16, 2010

Members of the First Dáil - Thomas Hunter

Thomas Hunter (died 11 March 1932) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician.

He was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for the Cork North East constituency at the 1918 general election. 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 Hunter did not attend as he was in prison.

He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East and North East constituency at the 1921 elections. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. He stood unsuccessfully as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin candidate for the same constituency at the 1922 general election.

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