Seán Ó Ceallaigh (17 April 1896 – 15 June 1994) was an Irish

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politician. He was first elected as a Fianna Fáil

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(TD) for the

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constituency at a

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on 22 July 1959, succeeding

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who had been elected

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. He was re-elected at the 1961 general election and at the 1965 general election. He did not contest the 1969 general election. Ó Ceallaigh taught in the all-Irish Coláiste Uí Chomhraidhe, Carrigaholt, County Clare. His son,

Fiachra Ó Ceallaigh Fiachra Ó Ceallaigh, O.F.M. (18 August 1933, Lissycasey, Ireland – 29 July 2018, Dublin, Ireland) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop. On 17 September 2009, he retired as an Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Dublin. Life Ó Ceallaigh trained at ...

, was an Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin.

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