Thomas Patrick Gill (25 Oct 1858 – 19 January 1931) was a prominent member of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the late 19th and early 20th century and a

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in the British House of Commons representing the South Louth constituency unopposed from 1885 to 1892. His uncle Peter was an unsuccessful election candidate in 1868 in

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Life

Gill was born 25 October 1858, in Ballygraigue, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, the eldest son of Robert Gill, a civil engineer. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and became a journalist, firstly as editor of the Catholic World magazine of New York, and an associate editor of the North American Review, 1883–85. He married in 1882 to Annie Fennell of Dublin, they had three children. Gill was a friend and political ally of

Charles Stewart Parnell Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891, also acting as Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882 and then Leader of the ...

. After the death of Parnell he remained with the Irish Parliamentary Party. He worked with Horace Plunkett in developing the Irish co-operative movement. He was member and honorary secretary to the 1895 Recess Committee which led to the formation of both the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (DATI), forerunner of the Irish Department of Agriculture, and the Vocational Education Committees (VEC). Gill's key work for the Recess committee was research into the state aid to agriculture in France and Denmark. In February 1900, he was appointed Secretary of the new Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction in Ireland. In 1907, Gill was appointed Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Irish Forestry. He also served on a number of governmental committees concerning agriculture and agricultural production He was President of the Irish Technical Instruction Association from 1925 to 1929.Who's Who, House of Commons, London Gill was an uncle of former Workers' Party president and

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Tomás Mac Giolla Tomás Mac Giolla (; born Thomas Gill; 25 January 1924 – 4 February 2010) was an Irish Workers' Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1993 to 1994, Leader of the Workers' Party from 1962 to 1988 and President of Sinn Féin ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, T. P. 1858 births 1931 deaths Politicians from County Tipperary Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Louth constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 People from Nenagh Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish Parliamentary Party MPs