James Nicholas Dolan (16 October 1884 – 14 July 1955) was an Irish politician and
TD for
County Leitrim
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constituencies from 1918 to 1937.
Dolan was born in
Manorhamilton
Manorhamilton () is the second-largest town in County Leitrim, Ireland. It is located on the N16 from Sligo and from Enniskillen.
History
Before the Plantations of Ireland, the settlement was known, and continues to be known in the Ir ...
,
County Leitrim
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, the son of John Dolan, merchant, and Bridget Fitzpatrick. His brother,
Charles Dolan
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, was an
Irish Parliamentary Party
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MP for
North Leitrim from 1906 to
1908
Events
January
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, who resigned his seat to run as the first ever Sinn Féin parliamentary candidate.
A
Sinn Féin
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The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur G ...
activist, and member of the
Irish Republican Brotherhood
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, James Dolan was interned in
Frongoch internment camp
Frongoch internment camp at Frongoch in Merionethshire, Wales was a makeshift place of imprisonment during the First World War and the 1916 Easter Rising.
History
1916 the camp housed German prisoners of war in a yellow distillery and cru ...
after the 1916
Easter Rising.
He was first elected as Sinn Féin
MP at the
1918 general election for
Leitrim.
[ At the 1921 general election, he was elected unopposed as a TD for the Leitrim–Roscommon North constituency, and supported the ]Anglo-Irish Treaty
The 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty ( ga , An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known in Ireland as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the ...
. At the 1922 general election, he was again elected unopposed for Leitrim–Roscommon North. At the 1923 general election, he was elected for the Leitrim–Sligo constituency.
Dolan joined the government of W. T. Cosgrave
William Thomas Cosgrave (5 June 1880 – 16 November 1965) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as the president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1932, leader of the Opposition in both the Free State and Ir ...
as Parliamentary Secretary to the President with responsibility as Government Chief Whip in 1924. He served in that post until 1927. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1927 to 1932. Dolan lost his Dáil seat at the 1932 general election. He regained his seat in 1933 and became a Fine Gael
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TD later that year when the new party was formed. He failed to be selected for Fine Gael at the 1937 general election for the new Leitrim constituency. He contested the election as an independent
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candidate, but was unsuccessful. He subsequently retired from politics.
References
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1884 births
1955 deaths
Cumann na nGaedheal TDs
Early Sinn Féin TDs
Fine Gael TDs
Members of the 1st Dáil
Members of the 2nd Dáil
Members of the 3rd Dáil
Members of the 4th Dáil
Members of the 5th Dáil
Members of the 6th Dáil
Members of the 8th Dáil
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Leitrim constituencies (1801–1922)
UK MPs 1918–1922
Parliamentary Secretaries of the 4th Dáil
Parliamentary Secretaries of the 6th Dáil
People of the Irish Civil War (Pro-Treaty side)
Politicians from County Leitrim
Government Chief Whip (Ireland)