Michael Louis Hearn (1866 – 1 May 1931) was an

Irish Nationalist Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state. Since the mid-19th century, Irish nationalism has largely taken the form of cu ...

Member of the

Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...

for

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, 1917–18. He was the son of T. Hearn of Dublin and was educated at

Tullabeg College St Stanislaus College (often called Tullabeg College) was a Jesuit boys boarding school, novitiate and philosophy school, in Tullabeg, Rahan, County Offaly. St Carthage founded a monastery of 800 monks there in 595 before founding his monaster ...

and at

Ratcliffe College Ratcliffe College is a coeducational Catholic independent boarding and day school near the village of Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire, approximately from Leicester, England. The college, situated in of parkland on the Fosse Way about ...

, Leicestershire, England. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1889, and built up an extensive practice, becoming President of the Incorporated Law Society. He was active in the Nationalist movement from early manhood, working on organization and electoral registration in South Dublin. He represented Rathmines for some years on Dublin County Council, of which he was chairman. He was also for some years chairman of the board of directors of the Nationalist newspaper, the ''

Freeman's Journal The ''Freeman's Journal'', which was published continuously in Dublin from 1763 to 1924, was in the nineteenth century Ireland's leading nationalist newspaper. Patriot journal It was founded in 1763 by Charles Lucas and was identified with radi ...

''. Hearn was elected unopposed for South Dublin in a by-election on 6 July 1917, following the death of William Cotton. He did not stand at the general election the following year.Walker (1978)

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* * 1866 births 1931 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Dublin constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1910–1918 People educated at Ratcliffe College People educated at St Stanislaus College Councillors of Dublin County Council {{Ireland-UK-MP-stub