Austin Stack

Austin Stack ( Irish Aibhistín de Staic , born December 7, 1879 in Tralee , County Kerry , † April 1, 1929 in Dublin ) was an Irish politician of the Sinn Féin .

biography

After joining the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1908, he began to become increasingly politically committed to the sovereignty of Ireland and was later commander of the County Kerry Volunteer Brigade during the Easter Rising in 1916. Because of his participation in this uprising he was initially sentenced to life forced labor, but in Discharged June 1917 as part of a general amnesty.

Stack, who from 1918 to 1922 a member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom was in 1919 as the candidate of Sinn Fein for the first time MPs ( Member of Dáil Éireann ) of the lower house ( Dáil Éireann selected) and represented there first the interests of the constituency Kerry West and then from 1921 to 1923 from Kerry-Limerick West .

Between January 16 and June 29, 1920 he was Deputy Minister of the Interior ( Substitute Minister for Home Affairs ) and then from August 16, 1921 to January 9, 1922 Minister for Home Affairs , a ministry that corresponds to the current Ministry of Justice. Most recently, he was one of the opponents of this treaty ( Anti-Treaty ) within the Sinn Féin, which was split due to the Anglo-Irish Treaty .

In protest against the treaty, he also took part in the Irish Civil War , which lasted between June 1922 and April 1923 . After he was arrested in 1923, he went on a 41-day hunger strike , from the consequences of which his health never fully recovered. He was only released from prison in July 1924.

Although he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the Kerry constituency as a candidate for Sinn Féin in 1923 and 1927 , he did not take his seat and finally renounced the election in September 1927 to run again.

Stack, who was also a noted Gaelic football player and who captained the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship with the County Kerry team in 1904 , was also temporarily president of the Gaelic Athletic Association .

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SURNAME	Stack, Austin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish politician (Sinn Féin), member of the House of Commons and sportsman
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tralee , County Kerry
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1929
Place of death	Dublin