Patrick Gaffney | |
Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | June 1922 |
Term End: | August 1923 |
Constituency: | Carlow–Kilkenny |
Party: | Labour Party |
Otherparty: | Communist Party of Ireland |
Birth Place: | County Carlow, Ireland |
Death Date: | 1943 |
Death Place: | County Carlow, Ireland |
Patrick Gaffney (died 1943) was a left-wing Irish politician. A flour miller from County Carlow, he was elected as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for Carlow–Kilkenny at the 1922 general election.[1] He left Labour to join the Communist Party of Ireland in protest over the Constitution of the Irish Free State's requiring the Oath of Allegiance for all legislators.[2]
He participated in the Third Dáil when it met as a "Provisional Parliament and Constituent Assembly" in September 1922, but withdrew when it became the Free State Dáil in December as the Constitution came into force and the Oath was required.[3] [4] He stood as a "Republican Labour" candidate in the 1923 general election but was defeated.[5]