Life
1889-1969; b. Randalstown, Co., Antrim; raised in Derry; ed. St. Columb’s
College; mbr Gaelic League and IRB; fndr-mbr. Irish Volunteers; organiser
for ITGWU for James Connolly; sub-ed. The Irish Republic; interned in
1916, though non-combatant, having mobilised 100 Volunteers who dispersed
without orders; anti-conscription campaigner, 1918; unsuccessfully urged
that Labour Party should contest election of Dec. 1918; worked on early
drafts of Democratic Programme of first Dail; Irish delegate to Socialist
International Conference, Berne, presenting Irish case for self-determination
(Irish at Berne); ed. The Voice of Labour, 1918-19, and The Watchword of Labour, 1919-20; arrested March 1920; fndr.-mbr
Socialist Party of Ireland, and expelled with William O’Brien; TD
Meath-Louth, June 1922; lost seat, 1923; ed. Voice of Labour and Watchword, 1930-32; workers’ representative at Labour Court
from its establishment, 1946; ed. Fifty Years of Liberty Hall (1969).
DIB DIH DUB
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Works
‘Devoy’s Post-Bag 1871-1928 / A Broadcast Talk by Cathal O’Shannon’ [pamph. rep. from Liberty, June 1953] - chiefly a commentary on William O’Brien’s book, with remarks on P. S. O’Hegarty - is held in William O’Brien Collection, National Library of Ireland [album PO 115, Item 55.]
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