Michael Duffy (Irish politician) explained

Office:Senator
Term Start:11 December 1922
Term End:29 May 1936
Party:Labour Party
Birth Place:County Meath, Ireland
Death Date:1957
Nationality:Irish

Michael Duffy (died 1957) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official from Dunshaughlin, County Meath.[1] [2]

He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 to 1936. He was a member of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and served as the president of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1934.[3] He was elected to the Free State Seanad for 9 years at the 1922 election, and was re-elected for another 9 years at the 1931 election.[1] He served until the Free State Seanad was abolished in 1936. He died in 1957.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Michael Duffy. Oireachtas Members Database. 4 January 2013.
  2. Web site: Residents of a house 67 in Dunshaughlin Town. National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911. 22 August 2014.
  3. Web site: Members of the First Seanad: Biographies – Duffy, Michael. Houses of the Oireachtas. 28 December 2023.
  4. The Meath Chronicle: 21 Sept 1957, p. 1