Paul Galligan

(Peter) Paul Galligan[1] (20 June 1888 – 14 December 1966) was an Irish Sinn Féin 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
Galligan photographed in May of 1916
Teachta Dála
In office
December 1918 – May 1921
ConstituencyCavan West
In office
May 1921 – June 1922
ConstituencyCavan
Personal details
Born(1888-05-20)20 May 1888 20 June 1888
Carrigallen, County Leitrim, Ireland
Died14 December 1966(1966-12-14) (aged 78)
Military service
Branch/serviceIrish Volunteers
Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)
RankCommandant
Battles/warsEaster Rising

Born in Carrigallen, County Leitrim, Galligan attended school at St Patrick's College, Cavan.[2] As a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers, during the Easter Rising Galligan cycled from Dublin to Wexford carrying James Connolly'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 Sinn Féin MP for Cavan West at the 1918 general election.[3] The following month, in January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs who had been elected in the Westminster elections of 1918 refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled in the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though Galligan did not attend as he was in prison.[1] He was arrested again in September 1920 [4] and re-elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan constituency at the 1921 elections. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it. He did not contest the 1922 general election and retired from politics.[5]

  • War Office: Army of Ireland: Administrative and Easter Rising Records—Peter Paul Galligan

Sources
  • Robert Brennan (1950), Allegiance.
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References
  1. "Roll call of the first sitting of the First Dáil". Dáil Éireann Historical Debates (in Irish). 21 January 1919. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
  2. http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie Archived 19 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine WS Ref #: 170 , Witness: Peter Paul Galligan, Officer IV, Wexford, 1916; Member 1st and 2nd Dail
  3. "Peter Paul Galligan". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
  4. www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie WS Ref #: 768 , Witness: Seamus McDermott, Intelligence Officer IRA, Cavan Town, 1921
  5. "Peter Galligan". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Vincent Kennedy		 Member of Parliament for West Cavan
1918–1922		 Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Oireachtas
New constituency Teachta Dála for West Cavan
1918–1921		 Constituency abolished


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