George Murnaghan (4 July 1847 – 13 January 1929) was an Irish Nationalist

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in the

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. He represented the Mid Tyrone constituency from the

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, until the

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Biography

Murnaghan emigrated to the US in the late 1860s, where he was a housebuilder and keeper of a

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. He married Angela Mooney, originally from

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with whom he had 9 children. He and his wife returned to Ireland in the late 1880s for health reasons. Francis Dominic Murnaghan, the Irish mathematician, was his son, and Francis Dominic Murnaghan, Jr., a United States federal judge, was his grandson.

James Murnaghan James Augustine Murnaghan (19 April 1881 – 20 January 1973) was an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1925 to 1953 and a Judge of the High Court from 1924 to 1925. He attended University College Dublin and held the de ...

, judge of the

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, was his son. Sheelagh Murnaghan, Ulster Liberal Party MP in

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was his granddaughter.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murnaghan, George 1847 births 1929 deaths 19th-century Irish people UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 Irish Parliamentary Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tyrone constituencies (1801–1922) Anti-Parnellite MPs