Eamonn Mansfield

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Eamonn Mansfield
Senator
In office
11 December 1922 – 12 December 1922
Personal details
Born1878 (1878)
County Tipperary, Ireland
Died1954 (aged 75–76)
County Tipperary, Ireland
Political partyIndependent

Eamonn (or Eamon; also Edward[1]) Mansfield (1878–1954)[2] was an Irish schoolteacher and public servant, and briefly a member of the Free State Seanad.

Mansfield's father was a tenant farmer who was evicted.[3] The son became principal of the national school in Cullen, County Tipperary, where his wife was also a teacher. He was president of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) from 1910 to 1911, and later its first full-time general secretary.[2][4] He was dismissed as principal in October 1912 after his 1911 INTO president's address criticised W. H. Welpy, a school inspector who was reputed to give poor assessments to keep salaries down.[5][6] Thomas O'Donnell and other Irish Parliamentary Party MPs campaigned for his reinstatement;[7] Mansfield and his wife continued to teach without pay until this was achieved in 1915.[5] He was later Chairman of the Wages Board c. 1921.[3]

On 7 December 1922, the day after the

telegram resigning from the Seanad "on account of Friday's reprisal" and stating that "peace is Ireland's only hope".[9] Ernest Blythe suggested later that Mansfield had resigned in panic at anti-Treaty commander Liam Lynch's order to assassinate all Senators.[10]

Mansfield was later a member of the Commission of Agriculture, and was consulted in the drafting of the Land Acts of 1923 and 1933.[3] In 1935, he was a member of a commission of inquiry into the sale of cottages and plots to agricultural labourers, as representative of the Cottier Tenants' and Rural Workers' Association.[11] He was a lay commissioner on the Appeals Tribunal of the Irish Land Commission from 1934 to 1950.[2][12] When Kathleen Browne complained in the Seanad about his appointment, his expertise and impartiality were commended by minister Joseph Connolly and senators Michael Comyn, James Charles Dowdall, and William Cummins.[3] As commissioner, he was an influential advocate of land division, and the rights of evicted tenants.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Edward Mansfield". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-85918-105-8
    . Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d "Appointment of Land Commissioners". Seanad Éireann debates. 7 February 1934. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  4. ^ "As Time Goes By – A brief view of INTO History". INTO. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-415-33258-3
    . Retrieved 27 January 2011.
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  8. ^ "Result of elections to Seanad". Dáil Éireann debates. 8 December 1922. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  9. ^ "Resignation of Senator". Seanad Éireann debates. 12 December 1922. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
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  11. ^ "Questions. Oral Answers. – Sale of Cottages and Plots". Dáil Éireann debates. Oireachtas. 4 December 1935. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
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    ISBN 978-1-904558-15-6
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  13. S2CID 159212991
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Preceded by
Michael Doyle
 General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation
1913–1916 		Succeeded by
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