Paul Galligan (20 June 1888 – 14 December 1966) was an Irish

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politician who would experience over five years in prison as a result of his republican activities during the 1916 Rising in Enniscorthy and the War of Independence in County Cavan. Peter Paul Galligan was born in Carrigallen,

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, Galligan attended school at St Patrick's College, Cavan. As a member of the

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and the

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, during the Easter Rising Galligan cycled from Dublin to Wexford carrying

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's battle orders to ensure that the volunteers in the area rose to support those in Dublin. When the volunteers disbanded he cycled back to Cavan but was arrested at the family home. He was elected unopposed as the

MP for Cavan West at the 1918 general election. The following month, in January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs who had been elected in the Westminster elections of 1918 refused to recognise the

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and instead assembled in the Mansion House in

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as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though Galligan did not attend as he was in prison. He was arrested again in September 1920 Bureau of Military Histor
WS Ref #: 768 , Witness: Seamus McDermott, Intelligence Officer IRA, Cavan Town, 1921
/ref> and re-elected as a Sinn Féin

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(TD) for the Cavan constituency at the 1921 elections. He supported the

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and voted in favour of it. He did not contest the 1922 general election and retired from politics.

Sources

*Robert Brennan (1950), ''Allegiance.''

References

External links

* file:Piece 207-088; Peter Paul Galligan (1922).pdf, War Office: Army of Ireland: Administrative and Easter Rising Records—Peter Paul Galligan {{DEFAULTSORT:Galligan, Paul 1888 births 1966 deaths Early Sinn Féin TDs Members of the 1st Dáil Members of the 2nd Dáil Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Cavan constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1918–1922 Politicians from County Leitrim People from Carrigallen