Joseph McGrath (politician)

Joseph McGrath ( Irish Seosamh Mac Craith , * 1887 in Dublin ; † March 1, 1966 ibid) was an Irish politician of the Sinn Féin and the Cumann na nGaedheal .

biography

McGrath, who was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood , was an active participant in the Easter Rising of 1916. His actual political career began as a candidate for the Sinn Féin in 1919 with the election of MP ( Teachta Dála ) of the First House of Commons ( Dáil Éireann ). There he first represented the interests of the constituency of Dublin St. James’s and then from 1921 to 1923 of Dublin North-West . Most recently he was one of the supporters of this treaty ( Pro-Treaty ) alongside Arthur Griffith within Sinn Féin, which was split due to the Anglo-Irish Treaty .

From 1919 to November 8, 1920 he was also Deputy Minister for Labor and later from January 11 to September 9, 1922, Minister of Labor. During the time of the Provisional Government , chaired by William Thomas Cosgrave , he was then Minister of Industry and Commerce until December 6, 1922.

In 1923 he was re-elected as a candidate for Cumann na nGaedheal as a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Mayo North until his resignation on October 29, 1924 .

Between September 21, 1923 and March 23, 1927 he was again Minister for Industry and Commerce and thus a member of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State , chaired by WT Cosgrave.

After leaving the government, McGrath switched to the private sector and was an advisor to Siemens-Schuckertwerke on the construction of the 1929 run-of-river power plant in Ardnacrusha . In 1930 he was the founder of the Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake (see Sweepstake ), a lottery to finance the construction of hospitals , which made him a wealthy businessman himself. In addition, he was involved in equestrian sports and horse breeding .

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