Office: | Senator |
Term Start: | 1 June 1973 |
Term End: | 27 October 1977 |
Constituency: | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
Office1: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start1: | October 1961 |
Term End1: | June 1969 |
Constituency1: | Dublin North-West |
Birth Date: | 1 February 1919 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Death Place: | Frankfurt, Germany |
Party: | Labour Party |
Spouse: | Anne Peavoy |
Children: | 5 |
Michael Mullen (1 February 1919 – 1 November 1982) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official.
He was born 1 February 1919 in Church Street, Dublin, the son of John Mullen, a glassblower, and Martha Smith. He was educated at St Michan's school in Halston St., but left school at 14 to work in a butcher's after his father's death. At 16 he got a job in the Ever Ready battery factory in Portobello, where he joined the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU), and was elected a shop steward the following year. He was a member of the Irish Republican Army during the 1940s, but left in 1945 to join the Labour Party.[1]
He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1951 and 1957 general elections. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency at the 1961 general election[2] and was re-elected at the 1965 general election.[3] He did not contest the 1969 general election. He was nominated by the Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave in 1973 to the 13th Seanad.
He was a member of Dublin Corporation from 1960 to 1969. He was general secretary of the ITGWU from 1969 to 1982.[1]
He was married to Anne Peavoy, and they had three daughters and two sons.[1] He died on 1 November 1982 in Frankfurt, while attending a trade union conference.[1]