Sir Joseph Aloysius Glynn (16 August 1869 – 6 March 1951) was an

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politician,

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and historian. Glynn was the son of John McMahon Glynn of

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. His older brother Patrick Glynn emigrated to Australia and became a government minister. Educated at

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, he became a solicitor in 1890. Nine years later he was elected to

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and acted as its chairman from 1902 to 1912. Glynn served as chairman of the Natural Insurance Commissioners from 1911 to 1933. He was knighted in 1915. While President of the Irish Council of St.

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, he was admitted to the

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. He was also a leading member of

An Ríoghacht An Ríoghacht (Irish for "The Kingdom", AKA the League of the Kingship of Christ) was a conservative Catholic group in Ireland, founded in 1926 by Fr Edward Cahill, Professor of Church History and Lecturer in Sociology at the Milltown Park Insti ...

.Maurice Curtis, ''A Challenge to Democracy: Militant Catholicism in Modern Ireland'', The History Press Ireland, 2010, p. 55 He married Bride Donnellan, daughter of John O'Neil Donnellon, in 1894. After her death in 1921, he married her younger sister, Kate, in 1923. He died in 1951 in Dublin, aged 82.

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* ''Knockmoy Abbey'', in ''Journal of the

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'', xxiv, 1904 * ''Life of

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'', Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1927 * ''Beatha Mhartin Talboid 1856–1927'', 1935

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Glynn, Joseph Politicians from County Galway 1869 births 1951 deaths Members of Galway County Council People educated at Blackrock College 21st-century Irish historians Knights Bachelor

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