Joseph MacDonagh

Joseph MacDonagh
Joseph MacDonagh
Teachta Dála
	In office; May 1921 – 25 December 1922
Constituency	Tipperary Mid, North and South
	In office; December 1918 – May 1921
Constituency	Tipperary North
Personal details
Born	18 May 1883; Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, Ireland
Died	25 December 1922 (aged 39); County Tipperary, Ireland
Political party	Sinn Féin
Spouse	Margaret O'Toole (m. 1913)
Children	3
Relatives	Thomas MacDonagh (brother); John MacDonagh (brother);
Education	Rockwell College

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

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

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

^ ^a ^b White, Lawrence William. "MacDonagh, Joseph". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
^ "Joseph MacDonagh". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
^ "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.
^ "Joseph MacDonagh". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 April 2009.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Lymbrick Esmonde	Member of Parliament for Tipperary North 1918–1922	Constituency abolished
Oireachtas
New constituency	Teachta Dála for Tipperary North 1918–1921	Constituency abolished

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