Patrick Joseph O'Byrne
KM (August 1870 – 20 January 1944) was an Irish
republican
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Political ideology
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and
Sinn Féin
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The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur G ...
politician.
Politics
O'Byrne was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin
Teachta Dála
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(TD) to the
2nd Dáil at the
1921 elections for the
Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency.
He opposed 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 ...
and
voted against it. He stood as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin candidate at the
1922 general election but was not elected.
He did not follow
Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera (, ; first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent Irish statesman and political leader. He served several terms as head of govern ...
who split from Sinn Féin in 1926 to found the
Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil (, ; meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party ( ga, audio=ga-Fianna Fáil.ogg, Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a conservative and Christia ...
party to enter the Dáil.
[Byrne-Rothwell, Daniel, The Byrnes and the O'Byrnes, Volume 2, (2010, Argyll), Chapters 7–8.]
Title and family
He was the son of was John O'Byrne of Corville,
County Tipperary
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(who had originally been granted the title of Count by the Pope) and his mother was Eleanor von Hübner, the daughter of Austrian diplomat
Count Joseph Alexander Hübner. He was a direct descendant of Edward Byrne (c.1739–1804), a wealthy Dublin merchant and Chairman of the Catholic Convention which campaigned for
Catholic rights, and his son John Dominick Byrne, who was a member of the
United Irishmen
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.
[
Patrick O'Byrne married Bernadette Boland in ]Sneem
Sneem () is a village situated on the Iveragh Peninsula (part of the Ring of Kerry), in County Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland. It lies on the estuary of the River Sneem. National route N70 runs through the town. While the 2016 census recor ...
, County Kerry in 1897. His brother-in-law was John Pius Boland
John Mary Pius Boland (16 September 1870 – 17 March 1958) was an Irish Nationalist politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliam ...
, the Home Rule
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MP for South Kerry. O'Byrne died in 1944 and is buried in St. Cronan's graveyard, Roscrea
Roscrea () is a market town in County Tipperary, Ireland, which in 2016 had a population of 5,446. Roscrea is one of the oldest towns in Ireland, having developed around the 7th century monastery of Saint Crónán of Roscrea, parts of which rem ...
, County Tipperary.[''The Irish Times'', 21 January 1944.]
References
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1870 births
1944 deaths
Early Sinn Féin TDs
Members of the 2nd Dáil
People educated at Beaumont College
Politicians from County Tipperary
People from Roscrea