James Walsh (Irish politician)

James Joseph " J. J. " Walsh ( born February 20, 1880 in Bandon, County Cork, † November 30, 1948 ) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and the Cumann na nGaedheal.

Life

After school he worked as a postal worker employed in the public service and took part in the 1916 Easter Rising. His real political career began as the candidate of Sinn Féin in 1919 with the election of the deputies ( Teachta Dala ) of the first lower house ( Dáil Éireann ), in which he first represented the interests of the constituency of Cork City and Borough of Cork. He was most recently within the cleaved due to the Anglo -Irish Treaty Sinn Féin, Arthur Griffith to the supporters of this Agreement ( Pro- Treaty ).

Between 9 September and 6 December 1922, he served as Postmaster General member of the Provisional Government of Ireland.

In 1923 he was elected MP for the Dáil again in the constituency of Cork Borough and took this time to 1927 the Cumann na nGaedheal.

During this time he was on 15 October 1923 to the June 23, 1927 Postmaster General, not one as such but to the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. Only after he was between 23 June and 12 October 1927 as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs member of the Executive Council and thus the led by William Thomas Cosgrave Cabinet.

In the elections in September 1927, he gave up another candidate, retired from the House of Commons, and then worked as an entrepreneur.

Because of its connections to fascism and in particular for the radical nationalist and fascist Ailtirí na hAiséirghe ( Architects of the Resurrection ) and his anti-Semitic attitude he came under observation of G2, the intelligence unit of the Irish armed forces. The interception of his telephone, however, was forbidden by the Minister of Justice Gerald Boland. The United Kingdom looked at him as one of four potential Quisling Ireland.