Denis Cullen
Denis Cullen | |
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Teachta Dála | |
In office June 1927 – September 1927 | |
Constituency | Dublin North |
Personal details | |
Born | (1886-08-19)19 August 1886 Donabate, County Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 26 November 1971(1971-11-26) (aged 85) Dublin, Ireland |
Political party | Labour Party |
Spouse | Mary Cullen |
Children | 1 |
Denis Cullen (19 August 1886 – 26 November 1971) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official.[1]
A baker by trade, during the 1910s he emerged as a leading figure in the Dublin branch of the Irish Bakers' National Amalgamated Union. At the 1918 national convention – at which the union's name was changed to the Irish Bakers, Confectioners, and Allied Workers Amalgamated Union – Cullen was elected national general secretary, commencing a twenty-five-year tenure (1918–1943), during which he was chief negotiator for both the national union and Dublin branch. He was also prominent in the leadership of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC), serving almost continually on the national executive (1920–1939, 1940–1943), as treasurer (1929–1930), and for two terms as president (1925–1926, 1930–1931).[1]
In 1925 the Labour Party identified high taxation as a government weakness and decided to contest the Dublin North and Dublin South by-elections. Cullen, as general secretary of the Irish Bakers, Confectioners and Allied Workers Amalgamated Union, was candidate in Dublin North with Thomas Lawlor, Irish Municipal Employees Union, in Dublin South.[2] Neither of them were elected.[3]
He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North constituency at the June 1927 general election.[4] He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election having only served 3 months as a TD.[3]
References
- ^ a b White, Lawrence William. "Cullen, Denis". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ Taxation In Irish Free State, The Times, 19 January 1925.
- ^ a b "Denis Cullen". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 11 November 2008.
- ^ "Denis Cullen". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 11 November 2008.
Trade union offices | ||
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Preceded by Robert Wilson | General Secretary of the Irish Bakers, Confectioners and Allied Workers Amalgamated Union 1920s–1942 | Succeeded by John Swift |
Preceded by William O'Brien | President of the Irish Trades Union Congress 1926 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by William O'Brien | Treasurer of the Irish Trade Union Congress 1930 | Succeeded by Luke Duffy |
Preceded by | President of the Irish Trade Union Congress 1931 | Succeeded by Louie Bennett |
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Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | ||||||||
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4th | 1923 | Alfie Byrne (Ind) | Francis Cahill (CnaG) | Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll (CnaG) | Seán McGarry (CnaG) | William Hewat (BP) | Richard Mulcahy (CnaG) | Seán T. O'Kelly (Rep) | Ernie O'Malley (Rep) | ||||||||
1925 by-election | Patrick Leonard (CnaG) | Oscar Traynor (Rep) | |||||||||||||||
5th | 1927 (Jun) | John Byrne (CnaG) | Oscar Traynor (SF) | Denis Cullen (Lab) | Seán T. O'Kelly (FF) | Kathleen Clarke (FF) | |||||||||||
6th | 1927 (Sep) | Eamonn Cooney (FF) | James Larkin (IWL) | Patrick Leonard (CnaG) | |||||||||||||
1928 by-election | Vincent Rice (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||||
1929 by-election | Thomas F. O'Higgins (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||||
7th | 1932 | Alfie Byrne (Ind) | Cormac Breathnach (FF) | Oscar Traynor (FF) | |||||||||||||
8th | 1933 | Patrick Belton (CnaG) | Vincent Rice (CnaG) | ||||||||||||||
9th | 1937 | Constituency abolished. See Dublin North-East and Dublin North-West |
Note that the boundaries of Dublin North from 1981–2016 share no common territory with the 1923–1937 boundaries. See §Boundaries
Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | ||||
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22nd | 1981 | Ray Burke (FF) | John Boland (FG) | Nora Owen (FG) | 3 seats 1981–1992 | ||||
23rd | 1982 (Feb) | ||||||||
24th | 1982 (Nov) | ||||||||
25th | 1987 | G. V. Wright (FF) | |||||||
26th | 1989 | Nora Owen (FG) | Seán Ryan (Lab) | ||||||
27th | 1992 | Trevor Sargent (GP) | |||||||
28th | 1997 | G. V. Wright (FF) | |||||||
1998 by-election | Seán Ryan (Lab) | ||||||||
29th | 2002 | Jim Glennon (FF) | |||||||
30th | 2007 | James Reilly (FG) | Michael Kennedy (FF) | Darragh O'Brien (FF) | |||||
31st | 2011 | Alan Farrell (FG) | Brendan Ryan (Lab) | Clare Daly (SP) | |||||
32nd | 2016 | Constituency abolished. See Dublin Fingal |