Patrick McCartan
Patrick McCartan | |
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Member of Parliament | |
In office December 1918 – November 1922 | |
Constituency | King's County |
In office April 1918 – December 1918 | |
Constituency | Tullamore |
Senator | |
In office 21 April 1948 – 14 August 1951 | |
Constituency | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
Personal details | |
Born | Carrickmore, County Tyrone, Ireland | 13 May 1878
Died | 28 March 1963 Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland | (aged 84)
Political party | |
Spouse |
Elizabeth Kearney (m. 1937) |
Children | 2 |
Patrick McCartan (13 May 1878 – 28 March 1963)[1] was an Irish republican and politician.[2] He served the First Dáil (1919–1921) on diplomatic missions to the United States and Soviet Russia. He returned to public life in 1948, serving in Seanad Éireann for Clann na Poblachta. McCartan was also a doctor.
Early life
He was born in Eskerbuoy, near Carrickmore, County Tyrone, one of five children, to Bernard McCartan, a farmer, and Bridget Rafferty (died 1918). He emigrated to the USA as a young man and became a member of Clan na Gael in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and edited the journal Irish Freedom. He returned to Ireland some years later and qualified as a doctor. He also continued working with nationalist politics and worked closely with Bulmer Hobson and Denis McCullough with the Dungannon Clubs and the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
McCartan was to take part in the 1916 Easter Rising with the Tyrone volunteers but did not, owing to Eoin MacNeill's countermanding order. He was arrested after the Rising and interned in an open prison in England.
Elections
In 1917 he took "French leave" to return to Ireland and assist Sinn Féin in the by-elections being held throughout Ireland that year.
McCartan contested the by-election in South Armagh for Sinn Féin but lost out to the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate.[3] He was later elected in a by-election in Tullamore in 1918. He was re-elected in the 1918 general election.[4]
He was re-elected for Leix–Offaly at the 1921 elections. He gave the Anglo-Irish Treaty his support, albeit reluctantly, in the Dáil debates, saying he would not "vote for chaos." He blamed the whole cabinet for the situation and said that "The Republic of which Mr. de Valera was President is dead." Disillusioned, he quit politics for the next twenty years.
Diplomatic missions (1919–1921)
At the meeting of the
McCartan then negotiated with the
Later political career
He contested the 1945 presidential election as an independent candidate and secured 20% of the vote. He became a founder member of Clann na Poblachta and contested the 1948 general election without success. As the Minister of External Affairs in the new coalition government, his party leader Seán MacBride put his name forward, with fellow Ulsterman Denis Ireland, to be nominated by the Taoiseach John A. Costello to Seanad Éireann.[8] He served as a Senator until 1951.[4]
In 1932 he published a book, With De Valera in America.
McCartan's daughter, Deirdre, was married to Irish folk musician Ronnie Drew.[1]
McCartan was an admirer of National Socialist ideals and an active supporter of the pro-Axis in front organisations such as Irish Friends of Germany.[9]
References
- ^ a b Coleman, Marie (October 2009). "McCartan, Patrick". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Patrick McCartan". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
- ISBN 9781856355124. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ a b "Patrick McCartan". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
- ISBN 9780191062414.
- ^ Proposals about Russia, May 1920
- ^ Para 5, Draft Treaty with Russia, May 1920
- ^ "Denis Ireland". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
- ^ Ailtiri na hAiseirghe and the Fascist 'new order' in Ireland (page 253)
Sources
- Cronin, Sean, McGarrity Papers (Dublin 1971)
- Gaughan, J.A., Memoirs of Senator Joseph Connolly: A Founder of Modern Ireland (1996)
- The O'Brien Press, Kathleen Clarke: Revolutionary Woman (Cork 1991)
External links
- Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource. . . Dublin: