| 词条 | Cathal O'Shannon |
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|name = Cathal O'Shannon |image = Cathal_O'Shannon_Election_Poster.jpg |office = Teachta Dála |term_start = June 1922 |term_end = 1923 |constituency2 = Louth-Meath |birth_date = {{birth date|1893|6|9|df=y}} |birth_place = Randalstown, County Antrim |death_date = 1969 |party = Socialist Party of Ireland |occupation = Trade union leader, Journalist |nationality = Irish }} Cathal O'Shannon (9 June 1893 – 4 October 1969) was an Irish politician, trade unionist and journalist. Born in Randalstown, County Antrim, he was educated at St Columb's College, Derry. He became a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and was involved in Conradh na Gaeilge, writing articles for the Peasant, Sinn Féin and An Claidheamh Soluis publications. He worked as a clerk in the Belfast office of the Heysham Steamship Company. {{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} In 1913, he was one of the founders of Irish Volunteers in Belfast. He was a founding member of the Socialist Party of Ireland, led by James Connolly and at whose request he joined the staff of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union in Belfast.{{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} On Easter Sunday 1916, he mobilised with a hundred Volunteers at Coalisland, County Tyrone; they dispersed when there were no orders from Dublin. He was later arrested by the British authorities who interned him until the General Amnesty of 1917. He was arrested during the German Plot and went on a hunger strike. He was released seventeen days later. {{Citation needed|date=October 2011}} A serving member of the Irish Republican Army in 1920-21, he supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and was elected to Dáil Éireann in the 1922 general election as a Labour Party TD for Louth–Meath.[1] He failed to be re-elected when he stood for the Louth constituency in the 1923 and for the Meath in the September 1927 general elections.[2] He remained a prominent figure in Labour, however, and edited The Voice of Labour and The Watchword from 1930-32. In 1941 he became Secretary of the Irish Trade Union Congress, and afterwards of the Congress of Irish Unions. He served for twenty-three years, until his death, as one of the workers' representatives when the Labour Court was established in 1946. DeathHe died in Dublin in 1969. His son Cathal O'Shannon was a veteran Irish broadcaster and journalist. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=3&MemberID=950&ConstID=140|title=Mr. Cathal O'Shannon|work=Oireachtas Members Database|accessdate=16 April 2012}} {{s-start}}{{s-npo|union}}{{s-bef|before = Thomas Foran}}{{s-ttl|title = President of the Irish Trades Union Congress2. ^{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1378|title=Cathal O'Shannon|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=16 April 2012}} |years = 1922}}{{s-aft|after = Luke Duffy}}{{s-bef|before = Eamonn Lynch}}{{s-ttl|title = Secretary of the Irish Trades Union Congress |years = 1941–1945}}{{s-aft|after = Thomas Johnson}}{{s-new|office}}{{s-ttl|title = Secretary of the Congress of Irish Unions |years = 1945}}{{s-aft|after = Leo Crawford}}{{s-end}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Oshannon, Cathal}} 7 : 1893 births|1969 deaths|Irish writers|Members of the 3rd Dáil|Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood|People from Randalstown|Labour Party (Ireland) TDs |
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