Joseph O'Connor (politician)

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Joseph John O'Connor (Irish Seosamh Ó Conchobhair), (c.1880 – 6 April 1941) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician.

O'Connor was born in the 1880s and remembered seeing Charles Stewart Parnell as a child. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and by 1916 he was a captain in command of A Company, 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade under Éamon de Valera. When the vice-commandant failed to show for the 1916 Easter Rising de Valera made O'Connor his second in command. O'Connor remained with his company and de Valera at Bolands Mill until they became the last battalion to surrender. He was imprisoned at Frongoch internment camp in Wales and released in the 1917 amnesty.

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After the Civil War he became a cattle salesman and farmer. At the 1925 Seanad election, he was elected as a Cumann na nGaedheal senator, serving until 1936. [1] Despite joining Fine Gael he presented de Valera with a scroll of those killed in the Easter Rising in a 20th anniversary remembrance. [2] He also sued O'Malley in 1936 when his memoirs accused O'Connor of cowardice and he won £550 in damages. [3]

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References

  1. "Mr. Joseph O'Connor". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-06. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
  3. http://www.achill247.com/writers/eomalley3.html