Jeremiah McVeagh (1870/73 – 17 April 1932) was an Irish

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politician and

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(MP) in the

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of the

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. He was the son of Thomas McVeagh, shipowner, and was educated at

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, Belfast, and at the

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. A journalist and barrister by profession, in the 1890s, McVeagh was based in London, where he was active in the Irish National League of Great Britain. He was first elected as the

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MP for the South Down constituency at the 19 February 1902 by-election, and was again re-elected at the 1906, January 1910, December 1910 and 1918 general elections, and served until 1922 as member of the Nationalist Party. McVeagh was an unsuccessful candidate for the British Labour Party in Sunderland at the 1924 United Kingdom general election. He was also unsuccessful in the 1925 Seanad election and the

June 1927 Irish general election The June 1927 Irish general election was to elect the 5th Dáil held on Thursday, 9 June following the dissolution of the 4th Dáil on 23 May 1927. It was the first election contested by Fianna Fáil, which had been formed a year earlier when � ...

, when he ran for the

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. In 1913 he presented the Jeremiah MacVeagh Cup to the Down County GAA Board. The Cup has been presented to the winners of the annual Down Senior Hurling Championship ever since. He died in a Dublin nursing home in 1932, following a series of heart attacks, and was buried in

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The Letters of Arnold Stephenson Rowntree to Mary Katherine Rowntree
by Arnold Stephenson Rowntree, Ian Packer, Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain), p. 29. * {{DEFAULTSORT:McVeagh, Jeremiah 1870s births 1932 deaths Irish barristers Irish Parliamentary Party MPs Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates Nationalist Party (Ireland) politicians Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Down constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 Place of birth missing Alumni of the Royal University of Ireland People educated at St Malachy's College 19th-century Irish lawyers 20th-century Irish lawyers National League Party candidates in Dáil elections Members of the 1st Dáil