John J. O'Kelly

John Joseph O'Kelly ( Irish : Seán Ó Ceallaigh , called "Sceig"; * 1872 ; † March 26, 1957 in Dublin ) was an Irish politician of the Sinn Féin .

biography

The journalist and author O'Kelly joined Arthur Griffith's newly founded Sinn Féin in November 1905 and became a member of the Irish National League after the Easter Rising in 1916 . In the elections to the British House of Commons ( House of Commons ) he was elected MP in 1918 as a representative of Louth constituency.

The following year he was elected as a candidate for the Sinn Féin MP ( Teachta Dála ) of the Irish House of Commons ( Dáil Éireann ) and represented in this first from 1919 to 1921 the constituency of Louth and then until 1923 Louth-Meath .

From the first Dáil he was elected Deputy Speaker of Parliament ( Leas-Ceann Comhairle ) on April 1, 1919 and was then Minister for the Irish Language from June 29, 1920 to August 26, 1921 . In addition, he was again deputy speaker of parliament from August 16 to August 26, 1921, before becoming Minister of Education between August 16, 1921 and January 9, 1922.

Although he was re-elected to the House of Commons in 1922, he did not take his seat. In the elections for the fourth Dáil Éireann he suffered a defeat in 1923 and left the House of Commons.

After Éamon de Valera resigned from Sinn Féin in 1926 and founded Fianna Fáil , O'Kelly succeeded it as chairman of Sinn Féin. He held this office until he was replaced by Brian O'Higgins in 1931.

Sceig O'Kelly, a religious and conservative Catholic , also worked as a journalist and editor of the newspapers Banba , The Catholic Bulletin and An Camán . The articles he wrote were partly shaped by anti-Semitism and anti-Freemasonry . During the Spanish Civil War , he rejected the use of fighters of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on the side of the opponents of Francisco Franco . In 1938 he visited Germany and published his experiences and observations there in the largest Irish daily newspaper, the Irish Independent .

After his death he was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery , the largest cemetery in Ireland.

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SURNAME	O'Kelly, John J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	O'Kelly, John Joseph; Ó Ceallaigh, Seán (Irish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish politician (Sinn Féin), journalist, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	1872
DATE OF DEATH	March 26, 1957
Place of death	Dublin