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Saturday, April 9, 2011
Members of the Fourth Dáil - Robert Lambert
Robert Lambert was an Irish politician. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency at the 1923 general election. He did not take his seat in the Dáil due to Sinn Féin's abstentionist policy. He did not contest the June 1927 general election.
Members of the Fourth Dáil - Osmond Esmonde
Sir Osmond Thomas Grattan Esmonde, 12th Baronet (4 April 1896 – 22 July 1936) was an Irish diplomat and Cumann na nGaedheal party politician. Esmonde was first elected to the 4th Dáil in the 1923 general election as Cumann na nGaedheal TD for the Wexford constituency. He did not contest the June 1927 general election, but was returned to the 6th Dáil in the September 1927 general election. He was re-elected at the 1932 general election, and again at the 1933 general election. After his death on 22 July 1936, the consequent by-election for his seat in Dáil Éireann was held on 17 August, and won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Denis Allen. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his uncle Laurence Esmonde.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Members of the Fourth Dáil - Nicholas Wall
Nicholas Wall (6 August 1884 – 3 December 1939) was an Irish politician and farmer. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1923 general election as a Farmers' Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency. He lost his seat at the June 1927 general election and was also an unsuccessful candidate at the September 1927 general election. He was elected as a National Centre Party TD at the 1933 general election. He became a Fine Gael TD on 8 September 1933 when Cumann na nGaedhael and the National Centre Party, along with the Army Comrades Association merged to form the new party of Fine Gael. He was elected as a Fine Gael TD at the 1937 general election but lost his seat at the 1938 general election.
Members of the Fourth Dáil - Caitlín Brugha
Caitlín Brugha Caitlín Brugha (née Kingston; 11 December 1879 – 1 December 1959) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician.
Born Kathleen Kingston, in Birr, County Offaly, she married Irish revolutionary Cathal Brugha in 1912. Her husband died in 1922 during the Irish Civil War and she was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) at the 1923 general election for the Waterford constituency. She was re-elected at the June 1927 general election. In accordance with Sinn Féin abstentionist policy of the time, she did not take her seat in Dáil Éireann. She did not contest the September 1927 general election.
Her son, Ruairí Brugha later became a Fianna Fáil politician and was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1973 general election.
Members of the Fourth Dáil - Patrick Ryan
Patrick Ryan (16 November 1898 – 21 January 1944) was an Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency at the 1923 general election. He did not take his seat in the Dáil due to Sinn Féin's abstentionist policy. He did not contest the June 1927 general election.
Members of the Fourth Dáil - Seán McCurtin
Seán (John) Patrick McCurtin (24 June 1896 – 12 November 1982) was an Irish Cumann na nGaedhael politician and army officer. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedhael Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency at the 1923 general election. He lost his seat at the June 1927 general election.
Members of the Fourth Dáil - Michael Heffernan
Michael Richard Heffernan (3 April 1885 – 21 November 1970) was an Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1923 general election as a Farmers' Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1927 to 1932. He stood as a Cumann na nGaedhael candidate at the 1932 general election but lost his seat.
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