J. E. Kenny
Joseph Edward Kenny | |
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Member of Parliament | |
In office 27 November 1885 – 13 April 1890 | |
Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | Edward Barry |
Constituency | South Cork |
In office 1892–1896 | |
Preceded by | Timothy Daniel Sullivan |
Succeeded by | James Laurence Carew |
Constituency | Dublin College Green |
Personal details | |
Born | 1845 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | April 9, 1900 (aged 54–55) |
Political party | Irish Parliamentary Party (until 1892) Irish National League |
Joseph Edward Kenny (1845 – 9 April 1900) was an
Parnellite MP for Dublin College Green
from 1892 until his resignation in 1896.
Son of J. Kenny, manager of a lead mine at
Union and in this role treated smallpox victims in the "sheds" at Glasnevin in the north Dublin epidemic of 1872. He caught the disease himself in spite of having been vaccinated
.
An active Irish Nationalist, in 1881 he was arrested under the
Catholic national seminary at Maynooth
.
At the
Parnellites elected to Parliament in 1892, although he easily won Dublin College Green, securing just over 50 per cent of the vote in a three-cornered fight, and defeating the sitting anti-Parnellite T. D. Sullivan.[2] He was then returned unopposed for the same seat in 1895. In July 1891 [3] he was elected as Coroner for the City of Dublin (prior to the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, coroners in Ireland were elected). Kenny resigned his parliamentary seat in 1896 on the ground that he could no longer attend the House of Commons regularly.[4]
He died in office as Coroner at the relatively young age of about 55, of blood poisoning after a tooth extraction.
Footnotes
- ISBN 0-901714-12-7.
- ^ Walker, op. cit, page 344
- ^ The Times, 5/7/1892
- ^ The Times, 31/3/1896
Selected writings
- Report of the Medical Commission of the Mansion House Committee, by George Sigerson and Joseph E. Kenny, Dublin, Mansion House, 1880
Sources
- Freeman's Journal, 10 April 1900
- Margaret Leamy, Parnell’s Faithful Few, New York, Macmillan, 1936
- F. S. L. Lyons, Charles Stewart Parnell, London, Collins, 1977, pp. 183–6
- The Times (London), 1 December 1885, 5 July 1892, 31 March 1896
- Brian M. Walker (ed.), Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 1978
- Who Was Who, 1897-1916