Maurice Healy

Maurice Healy (3 January 1859 – 9 November 1923) was an

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politician, lawyer and Member of Parliament (MP). As a member of the

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, he was returned to in the

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of the

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four times between 1885 and 1918. He was one of twins, the third son born to Maurice, a Poor Law Union clerk, and Eliza (née Sullivan) Healy, in Bantry. His mother died during the birth. As he grew up he became very close to his elder brother Tim Healy. It is said that the nurse placed Maurice in the young Tim's arms and said, "This little boy has no mother now and you will have to be a mother to him." Both brothers married Sullivans who were first cousins to their husbands and to each other.''Burke's Irish Family Records'', 1976, pp. 572 and 1078-79. The orphaned children were effectively raised by their maternal grandmother, Jane Sullivan. The family moved to Lismore, where he was educated at the local Christian Brothers school. Admitted as a solicitor in 1882, he practised as such and was returned to parliament four times, first as a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party for

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from 1885 to 1900, in which year standing as a Healyite nationalist he was defeated by

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in a bitter campaign. He was returned again for Cork City in May 1909 to January 1910. In 1910, for North East Cork, this time as a supporter and member of William O'Brien's All-for-Ireland Party (AFIL). From the December 1910 general election until the December 1918 general election he again represented Cork City. He was generally considered one of the finest Irish lawyers of his generation, and exceptionally conscientious in his handling of a case. His force in parliament was land law. He was a close confidant of his brother and although more retiring and stolid than his better known elder brother, Tim, he was considered the more intelligent and often acted as a counterbalance to his brother's emotionality. On the outbreak of

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in 1914 a son of each enlisted in one of the Irish Divisions. His uncle,

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, was also a member of parliament, as was his oldest brother, Thomas Joseph Healy and father-in-law A. M. Sullivan. His son, also called Maurice (1887–1943), educated at

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stood unsuccessfully as an AFIL candidate for West

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in December 1910, was a regular contributor (including much satirical verse) to the O'Brienite '' Cork Free Press''. Maurice (junior) moved to England after the founding of the

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where he was both a successful lawyer, and a broadcaster for the

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