Tomás Mac Giolla

Tomás Mac Giolla ( born January 25, 1924 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, † February 4, 2010 in Dublin) was an Irish politician and was from November 1982 to 1992 the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament to. Most recently, he was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers ' Party of Ireland.

Life

Tomás Mac Giolla was born in 1924 when Thomas Gill, the son of Robert and Mary Gill. His uncle TP Gill was a member of Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish Parliamentary Party. Mac Giollas father came several times unsuccessfully in parliamentary elections.

Mac Giolla attended the local school in Nenagh and then the St. Flannan 's College in Ennis, County Clare. During his time at St. Flannan 's, he changed his name from Thomas Gill in the Irish version Tomás Mac Giolla. After finishing school, he studied at University College Dublin, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and later a Bachelor of Commerce ( B.Comm. ).

At a young age Mac Giolla was an active Republican. So he joined in 1950 Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army (IRA ) in. In 1961 he ran unsuccessfully for the Sinn Féin for a seat in the 17th Dáil Éireann. A year later he was elected chairman of Sinn Féin. Under his leadership, the party pursued in the 1960s, at times a Marxist course.

In 1970, Sinn Féin split into two factions, with both looked at each as the only legitimate Sinn Féin. Mac Giolla remained Chairman of Official Sinn Féin. 1977 Official Sinn Féin was then renamed Sinn Féin the Workers Party. In 1982, the next renaming, this time in Workers ' Party. In the elections in November 1982 Mac Giolla was chosen for the Workers' Party in the Dáil Éireann. In 1988 he resigned from the post of party chairman and was replaced by Proinsias De Rossa. In 1989 the party won the pinnacle of its political influence, as it managed to win seven seats in Dáil Éireann. After 1992, however, came to a split and the six other MPs changed to Democratic Left, Mac Giolla remained the only member of the Workers ' Party in the Dáil. In the elections to Dáil Éireann in the latter part of the year he could not defend his position.

In addition to his deputies work, he was also in the Dublin City Council (Dublin Corporation, now Dublin City Council ) active. 1979 first elected, in 1985 and 1991 respectively his re-election. Mac Giolla belonged to the Dublin Corporation until 1998. From July 1993 to July 1994, he held there the office of Mayor of the city (Lord Mayor of Dublin).