Life
1851-1910; Irish politician, founded Kerry Sentinel, 1877; imprisoned;
initiated with William O’Brien and John Dillon ‘Plan of Campaign’,
which he published in United Ireland, 23 Oct. 1866; MP for Co.
Westmeath, 1883-85; Irish bar, 1877, and council for Parnell in Parnell
Commission; declared for Parnell during Split; Lord Mayor of Dublin 1901-04
[err. 1902]; pelted by Unionist students from Trinity College,[TCD], 17
March 1901; d. at home, Harcourt St., 12 March 1910. ODNB DIB DIH FDA
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Notes
Harrington was a personal friend of John Stanislaus Joyce, who secured
from him references for his son James Joyce on applying for a post to
a bank in Rome (see Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, 1959 & edns.)
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