Eugene Mullen (1898–1953) was an Irish

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politician, professor and priest. Mullen was born in Roemore,

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County Mayo, to national school teacher parents, Thomas and Mary Mullen. A schoolteacher by profession, he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil

Teachta Dála A Teachta Dála ( , ; plural ), abbreviated as TD (plural ''TDanna'' in Irish, TDs in English), is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament). It is the equivalent of terms such as ''Member of Parli ...

(TD) for the Mayo South constituency at the June 1927 general election. He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election having only served 3 months as a TD. Mullen subsequently became a professor. Later, on 16 December 1938, he joined the Order of the

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, assuming the name Father Ephraim.Obituary Mr Thomas Mullen, ''Irish Independent'', p. 5, 3 January 1966. As a Carmelite friar, Mullen wrote the epic poem ''Ode to St. Patrick'' as well as other lyrical pieces. His younger brother

Thomas Mullen Thomas Mullen (20 June 1896 – 2 January 1966) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and school teacher. He was born in Roemore, Breaffy, County Mayo, to primary school teacher parents, Thomas and Mary Mullen (née Coggins).Deaths, ''Irish Ind ...

, was a TD for the Dublin County constituency from 1938 to 1943.

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