Harry Colley
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| Senator | |
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| Constituency | Labour Panel |
| Teachta Dála | |
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| Constituency | Dublin North-East |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Henry Edward Colley Script error: No such module "person date". Dublin, Ireland |
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| Party | Fianna Fáil |
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Christina Nugent
(m. 1914) |
| Children | 7, including George |
| Relatives | Anne Colley (granddaughter) |
| Education | Synge Street CBS |
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| Rank | Adjutant |
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Henry Edward Colley (21 February 1891 – 18 January 1972) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-East constituency from 1944 to 1957.[1] He was also a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1957 to 1961.[2]
Early life and revolutionary period
He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, serving in the GPO garrison during the 1916 Easter Rising; British troops, believing him dead, used his body as a sandbag on their Gloucester Street barricade. He was imprisoned at Frongoch internment camp, and was released in December 1916; becoming second-in-command to Oscar Traynor in F Company, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade Irish Republican Army (IRA)[2] Colley served as Brigade Adjutant, Dublin Brigade IRA in 1920–1921 period was prominent in the attack on The Custom House on 25 May 1921.[3]
Opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, he took the anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and was involved in the planning and organising of IRA operations against National forces. He was arrested by National forces on 9 August 1922, interned at Newbridge, County Kildare, where he went on hunger strike and was released in March 1923.[2] Colley was later awarded a pension by the Irish government under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934 for his service with Irish Volunteers and the IRA between 1916 and 1923.[3]
Politics
A founder member of Fianna Fáil, he was a leading member of its national executive and its organising committee.[2] Colley was first elected to Dáil Éireann on his second attempt, at the 1944 general election, representing Dublin North-East.[4] He remained a TD until he lost his seat at the 1957 general election, to the future Taoiseach Charles Haughey. Colley was elected to Seanad Éireann for the Labour Panel in 1957. He did not contest the 1961 Seanad election.[1]
He married Christina Nugent on 14 October 1918, and they had five daughters and two sons.[2] One of his sons, George Colley, was elected to the Dáil for the same constituency at the 1961 general election and went on to hold several cabinet positions, including those of Minister for Finance and Tánaiste. He was defeated in the 1979 Fianna Fáil leadership election, by the man who unseated his father, Charles Haughey.[4]
Harry Colley died on 18 January 1972 and was buried with full military honours in the republican plot at Glasnevin Cemetery.
See also
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Harry Colley". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dempsey, Pauric J. "Colley, Henry Edward ('Harry')". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ a b Irish Military Archives, Military Service (1916–1923) Pension Collection, Harry Colley, MSP34REF20060. Available online at http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/search.aspx?formtype=advanced.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Harry Colley". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
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