Séamus Dwyer
Séamus Dwyer | |
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Teachta Dála | |
In office May 1921 – June 1922 | |
Constituency | Dublin County |
Personal details | |
Born | James J. Dwyer (1886-11-15)15 November 1886 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 20 December 1922(1922-12-20) (aged 36) Dublin, Ireland |
Political party | Sinn Féin |
Spouse | Marie Molloy |
Education | Blackrock College |
Séamus Dwyer (15 November 1886 – 20 December 1922) was an Irish politician. Serving as an intelligence officer for the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Republican Army, and as a Dáil Court judge he was imprisoned by the British in 1921.[1] He was elected unopposed at the 1921 elections for the Dublin County constituency as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) in the 2nd Dáil.[2] He voted in favour of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. He stood as a pro-Treaty Sinn Féin candidate at the 1922 general election but was not elected.[3]
On 20 December 1922 he was shot dead in his shop at 5 Rathmines Road, Dublin,[4] by anti-Treaty IRA Volunteer Robert Bonfield.[1] "At about 4.50 pm Mr O'Dwyer was talking to a customer when a young man enter the shop, addressing O'Dwyer the young man asked 'Are you Mr O'Dwyer?'. O'Dwyer replied yes and the young man said I have a note for you. The young man reached into the pocket of his overcoat a drew a revolver, he fired twice at O'Dwyer at point-blank range. O'Dwyer died instantly. The customer and a shop assistant gave chase but were unable to catch the assassin. Two republicans, Frank Lawlor and the actual assassin, Robert Bonfield, were later killed by Free State forces in revenge for the shooting of Dwyer.[1]
O'Dwyer ran a off-licence/grocery shop in Rathmines. He was a member of Rathmines Urban Council. O'Dwyer married Marie Molloy in 1914, they had no children.[1] He was a member of the Peace Committee of ten men which sat in May 1922 which brought about the agreement between Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Michael McKenna. "Who was Séamus Dwyer?". The Irish Story: Irish History Online. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
- ^ "Séamus Dwyer". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 27 December 2008.
- ^ "Séamus Dwyer". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 27 December 2008.
- ^ "Murdered in his Shop". The Irish Times. 21 December 1922. Retrieved 13 April 2009.
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Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | ||||||||
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2nd | 1921 | Michael Derham (SF) | George Gavan Duffy (SF) | Séamus Dwyer (SF) | Desmond FitzGerald (SF) | Frank Lawless (SF) | Margaret Pearse (SF) | 6 seats 1921–1923 | |||||||||
3rd | 1922 | Michael Derham (PT-SF) | George Gavan Duffy (PT-SF) | Thomas Johnson (Lab) | Desmond FitzGerald (PT-SF) | Darrell Figgis (Ind) | John Rooney (FP) | ||||||||||
4th | 1923 | Michael Derham (CnaG) | Bryan Cooper (Ind) | Desmond FitzGerald (CnaG) | John Good (Ind) | Kathleen Lynn (Rep) | Kevin O'Higgins (CnaG) | ||||||||||
1924 by-election | Batt O'Connor (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||||
1926 by-election | William Norton (Lab) | ||||||||||||||||
5th | 1927 (Jun) | Patrick Belton (FF) | Seán MacEntee (FF) | ||||||||||||||
1927 by-election | Gearóid O'Sullivan (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||||
6th | 1927 (Sep) | Bryan Cooper (CnaG) | Joseph Murphy (Ind) | Seán Brady (FF) | |||||||||||||
1930 by-election | Thomas Finlay (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||||
7th | 1932 | Patrick Curran (Lab) | Henry Dockrell (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||
8th | 1933 | John A. Costello (CnaG) | Margaret Mary Pearse (FF) | ||||||||||||||
1935 by-election | Cecil Lavery (FG) | ||||||||||||||||
9th | 1937 | Henry Dockrell (FG) | Gerrard McGowan (Lab) | Patrick Fogarty (FF) | 5 seats 1937–1948 | ||||||||||||
10th | 1938 | Patrick Belton (FG) | Thomas Mullen (FF) | ||||||||||||||
11th | 1943 | Liam Cosgrave (FG) | James Tunney (Lab) | ||||||||||||||
12th | 1944 | Patrick Burke (FF) | |||||||||||||||
1947 by-election | Seán MacBride (CnaP) | ||||||||||||||||
13th | 1948 | Éamon Rooney (FG) | Seán Dunne (Lab) | 3 seats 1948–1961 | |||||||||||||
14th | 1951 | ||||||||||||||||
15th | 1954 | ||||||||||||||||
16th | 1957 | Kevin Boland (FF) | |||||||||||||||
17th | 1961 | Mark Clinton (FG) | Seán Dunne (Ind) | 5 seats 1961–1969 | |||||||||||||
18th | 1965 | Des Foley (FF) | Seán Dunne (Lab) | ||||||||||||||
19th | 1969 | Constituency abolished. See Dublin County North and Dublin County South |