| Archie Heron | |
| Office: | Teachta Dála |
| Term Start: | July 1937 |
| Term End: | June 1938 |
| Constituency: | Dublin North-West |
| Party: | Labour Party |
| Birth Date: | 29 August 1896 |
| Birth Place: | Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland |
| Death Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Children: | 2 |
Archibald Heron (29 August 1896 – 10 May 1971) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade unionist.
He was born in Portadown, County Armagh, to a presbyterian family, one of seven children of Samuel Heron, a physician and surgeon, and his wife Bessie (née Beck).[1] He was educated locally before moving to Belfast in 1912.[2] He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and moved to Dublin in 1912 where he became involved in the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union.[3]
During the Irish War of Independence he served as a bodyguard for Michael Collins[4]
In the 1937 general election, he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency.[5] He lost his seat at the 1938 general election.[6] He was unsuccessful in both the 1927 general elections in Sligo–Leitrim.
He was a longtime member of Dublin's United Arts Club.[7]
He married Ina Connolly, daughter of the socialist republican revolutionary James Connolly. Their son Brian Samuel Connolly Heron (Brian o h-Eachtuigheirn) (1941-2011), was an organiser for the United Farm Workers in California. He was also a founding member in the United States of the National Association for Irish Justice which, in 1969, gained recognition as the U.S. support group for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.[8] [9]