Austin Stack

Austin Stack ( Irish Aibhistín de Staic, born December 7, 1879 in Tralee, County Kerry, † April 1, 1929 in Dublin) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician.

Biography

After joining the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1908, he began increasingly to engage politically to the sovereignty of Ireland, and later was commander of the volunteer brigade of County Kerry during the Easter Rising in 1916. Due to its participation in the revolt, he was initially sentenced to life in forced labor, but in June 1917 released under a general amnesty.

Stack, which was from 1918 to 1922 and member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, was elected in 1919 as the candidate of Sinn Féin for the first time MPs ( Teachta Dala ) of the lower house ( Dáil Éireann ) and represented there at first the interests of the constituency of Kerry North and then from 1921 to 1923 by Kerry - Limerick West.

Between 16 January and 29 June 1920, he was Deputy Minister of the Interior (Substitute Minister for Home Affairs ), and then from August 16, 1921 to January 9, 1922 to the Minister for Home Affairs, a ministry that meets the current Department of Justice. He was most recently within the cleaved due to the Anglo -Irish Treaty Sinn Féin to the opponents of this Agreement ( anti - Treaty ).

In protest against the treaty, he also participated in the between June 1922 and April 1923 lasting Irish Civil War. After he was arrested in 1923, he went on a hunger strike of 41 days, from whose consequences he recovered his health never right again. In July 1924 he was released from prison.

Although he was elected in 1923 and 1927 as the candidate of Sinn Féin to the House of Representatives in the constituency of Kerry, he took his seat not one and finally decided in the elections in September 1927 on a bid again.

Stack, who was also a well-known Gaelic football player and 1904 won as captain with the team of County Kerry All- Ireland Senior Football Championship, was at times also President of the Gaelic Athletic Association.

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