Richard Barry

Richard "Dick" Barry (born September 4, 1919 , † April 28, 2013 ) was an Irish politician of the Fine Gael who was between 1953 and 1981 member of the House of Commons ( Dáil Éireann ).

Life

Barry worked as an innkeeper and auctioneer in Fermoy ( County Cork ) and ran for the Fine Gael in the elections on May 30, 1951 in the constituency of Cork East for the first time without success for a mandate in the Dáil Éireann. In a by the death of Seán Keane made necessary by-election ( by-election ), he was on 18 June 1953 at the constituency Cork East , however, elected a member of Dáil Éireann and could rely against John Moher from the Fianna Fáil and against Keane's son Seán Keane, Jr., who ran for the Irish Labor Party . He also represented this constituency after his re-elections on May 14, 1954 and March 5, 1957 . In the elections of October 4, 1961 , he was then elected to the constituency of Cork North-East as a member of the House of Commons and belonged to this House after his re-elections on April 7, 1965 , June 18, 1969 , February 28, 1973 and June 16, 1977 to to refrain from running again in the elections of June 11, 1981 for more than 28 years. At the same time he was a deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from May 2, 1966 to May 1, 1968 .

After Fine Gael's victory in the February 28, 1973 elections, Barry was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health by the Prime Minister ( Taoiseach ) on March 14, 1973 , and held this junior ministerial post until the end of Cosgrave's tenure on May 25, 1977.

Dick Barry was the father of Myra Barry , who also became a member of the Dáil Éireann in a by -election on November 7, 1979 in the constituency of Cork North East , which became necessary due to the death of Seán Brosnan , and this until her resignation in the elections on February 17 1987 belonged, where she last represented the constituency of Cork East between 1981 and 1987 .

Web links

Entry on the side of the Oireachtas
Entry on electionsireland.org
Entry on the page of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Former Fine Gael junior minister Dick Barry dies aged 93 . In: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) of April 29, 2013
Taoiseach pays tribute to former Fine Gael junior minister Dick Barry. The former publican and auctioneer from Fermoy, Co Cork which first elected to the Dáil in 1953 . In: The Journal of April 29, 2013

Individual evidence

^ Richard Sinnott: Irish Voters Decide: Voting Behavior in Elections and Referendums Since 1918 , Manchester University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-71904-037-X , p. 207
↑ Myra Barry on the Oireachtas page
↑ Myra Barry at electionsireland.org
↑ Myra Barry was just under 22 years old and was one of the youngest ever elected MPs in the lower house and sat with her father in Dáil Éireann until the end of the 21st legislative period on June 11, 1981. This was also the first and so far only time in Irish parliamentary history that a father and his child represented the same constituency in one legislative period.

personal data
SURNAME	Barry, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Barry, Dick (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1919
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 2013

[1] Richard Sinnott: Irish Voters Decide: Voting Behavior in Elections and Referendums Since 1918 , Manchester University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-71904-037-X , p. 207

[2] Myra Barry on the Oireachtas page

[3] Myra Barry at electionsireland.org

[4] Myra Barry was just under 22 years old and was one of the youngest ever elected MPs in the lower house and sat with her father in Dáil Éireann until the end of the 21st legislative period on June 11, 1981. This was also the first and so far only time in Irish parliamentary history that a father and his child represented the same constituency in one legislative period.