Daniel Corkery (20 September 1883 – 23 April 1961) was an Irish politician and Commandant in the

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(IRA) during the Irish War of Independence.

Revolutionary period

From

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, Corkery was served short terms of imprisonment in 1916 and 1917 for Irish Volunteers activity. During the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), he took part in barracks attacks and operations against British forces. He one of the main IRA officers during the Coolavokig ambush in February 1921.. At the 1921 general election he was elected unopposed to the

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as a

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(TD) for the Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West constituency. An anti-Treaty member from January 1922, he did not take his seat in the

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. Corkery was arrested by National forces on 4 November 1922 and interned in Cork County Jail, Cork, Hare Park internment camp and Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. He states that he was granted parole in June 1923 in connection with the death of his wife following which he returned to his internment and was finally released in February 1924. Corkery later applied to the Irish government for a service pension under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934 and was awarded nine years service in 1937 at Grade C for his service with the Irish Volunteers and the IRA between 1 April 1917 and 30 September 1923.

Politics

He was elected to the 4th Dail at the 1923 general election for the new Cork North constituency, again as an anti-treaty

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. After his re-election at the June 1927 general election as

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republican, he joined the newly created

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party and took his seat with other Fianna Fáil deputies in August 1927. Corkery was re-elected as a Fianna Fáil TD at the September 1927 general election, but lost his seat at the 1932 general election. He re-gained his seat at the 1933 general election, but again lost his seat at the 1937 general election. In 1938 he was elected to the revived

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and continued as a Senator until 1948.

References

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