| Office: | Senator |
| Term Start: | 22 July 1954 |
| Term End: | 22 May 1957 |
| Constituency: | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
| Term Start1: | 22 May 1957 |
| Term End1: | 14 December 1961 |
| Term Start2: | 21 April 1948 |
| Term End2: | 22 July 1954 |
| Constituency2: | Agricultural Panel |
| Term Start3: | 18 August 1944 |
| Term End3: | 21 April 1948 |
| Term Start4: | 27 April 1938 |
| Term End4: | 8 September 1943 |
| Constituency4: | Labour Panel |
| Office5: | Teachta Dála |
| Term Start5: | June 1943 |
| Term End5: | May 1944 |
| Constituency5: | Dublin County |
| Party: | Labour Party |
| Birth Place: | County Mayo, Ireland |
| Death Place: | County Dublin, Ireland |
| Spouse: | M. Ellen Grimes |
| Children: | 8, including Jim |
James Tunney (1892 – 11 May 1964) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served for seven terms in Seanad Éireann and for one term in Dáil Éireann.[1]
He was elected to the 2nd Seanad by the Labour Panel in 1938, he was re-elected that year to the 3rd Seanad. At the 1943 general election, he was elected as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin County constituency, but lost his seat at the 1944 general election.[2]
In the same year, Tunney was returned to the 5th Seanad by the Labour Panel. In 1948 he was elected to the 6th Seanad by the Agricultural Panel, which also elected him to the 7th Seanad in 1951. In 1954, he was nominated by the Taoiseach, John A. Costello to the 8th Seanad. In 1957, following the defeat of the Second Inter-Party Government, he was elected to the Seanad for a seventh and final time, again by the Agricultural Panel.
He did not contest the 1961 election for the 10th Seanad. He died on 11 May 1964.
His son Jim Tunney was a Fianna Fáil TD from 1969 to 1992.[3]