The 8th Seanad was in office from 1954 to 1957. An election to Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 1954 general...
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Margaret Mary Pearse (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
elected to the Administrative Panel of the 2nd Seanad. Although she had rarely spoken out in the Dáil or Seanad, or posed any questions, she was described...
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Seanad constituted as the 1931 Seanad and the 1934 Seanad. From 29 May 1936, it was the sole house of the Oireachtas, after the disbandment of Seanad...
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senators served until the close of poll for the 8th Seanad in 1954. There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad: 43 were elected on five vocational panels...
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Michael Hayes (politician) (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
Hayes lost his Dáil seat at the 1933 general election, but was elected to Seanad Éireann in 1938 for Fine Gael. He remained a Senator until 1965, acting...
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List of Irish politicians (section Seanad Éireann)
1934 Seanad 2nd Seanad 3rd Seanad 4th Seanad 5th Seanad 6th Seanad 7th Seanad 8th Seanad 9th Seanad 10th Seanad 11th Seanad 12th Seanad 13th Seanad 14th...
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Patrick Bergin (politician) (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1957. He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 8th Seanad in 1954. He did not contest the 1957 Seanad election....
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Henry Eustace Guinness (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1957. Guinness was nominated by the Taoiseach, John A. Costello in 1954 to the 8th Seanad. He did not contest...
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Michael Yeats (category Cathaoirligh of Seanad Éireann)
was nominated to the 7th Seanad by the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. He stood at the subsequent election in 1954 for the 8th Seanad but was not elected. From...
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Owen Sheehy-Skeffington (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
of the 8th Seanad by the Dublin University constituency. He was re-elected in 1957, but lost his seat in 1961. He was returned to the 11th Seanad in 1965...
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Thomas J. O'Connell (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
and Educational Panel re-elected him in 1948 to the 6th Seanad and in 1954 to the 8th Seanad. "Thomas O'Connell". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved...
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William Bedell Stanford (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
of Stanford's. He also represented the Dublin University constituency in Seanad Éireann from 1948 to 1969. During the 1950s, however, he came out publicly...
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Joe Sheridan (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
Council, and then to Seanad Éireann by the Agricultural Panel at a by-election on 14 May 1956. He was re-elected at the 1957 Seanad election, this time...
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Gerry L'Estrange (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
election to the 8th Seanad as a Senator for the Administrative Panel. He was re-elected in 1957 to 9th Seanad, and in 1961 to 10th Seanad. After another...
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Denis Burke (Irish politician) (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
served as a senator for 13 years. He was first elected in 1948 to the 6th Seanad, and held his seat until he stood down at the 1961 election. Burke stood...
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Eustace Guinness (1897–1972), Irish banker and politician, member of the 8th Seanad Éireann Henry Grattan Guinness (1835–1910), Irish Protestant Christian...
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Jane Dowdall (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
elected to Seanad Éireann on the Industrial and Commercial Panel at the 1951 election, and was re-elected in 1954 and 1957. While in the Seanad she expressed...
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George O'Brien (Irish politician) (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
1973) was an Irish politician, economist and academic. He was elected to Seanad Éireann as an independent member in 1948 by the National University constituency...
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Roger McHugh (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
the Irish Free State at the Curragh internment camp. He was elected to Seanad Éireann as an independent member in 1954 by the National University constituency...
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Seán O'Donovan (category Members of the 2nd Seanad)
not serve in the 6th or 8th Seanad. From 1951 onwards, he was nominated by the Taoiseach. He lost his seat at the 1969 Seanad election. He was married...
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Patrick Crowley (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
was not successful. He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1969. He was first elected to the 8th Seanad in 1954 by the Labour Panel, and was re-elected...
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Edward McGuire (politician) (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
a member of Seanad Éireann from 1948 to 1965. He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 6th Seanad in 1948. He was elected to 7th Seanad in 1951 to the...
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Reidy (Lost seat) P. J. Ruttledge (Deceased) Laurence Walsh (Lost seat) 8th Seanad Including Patrick Hogan (Lab), returned automatically for Clare as outgoing...
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James J. McCrea (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
the Administrative Panel, and to the 8th Seanad in 1954 by the Agricultural Panel. He did not contest the 1957 Seanad election. He stood unsuccessfully for...
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Victor Carton (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
Fine Gael politician. He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1969. He was first elected to the 8th Seanad in 1954 by the Labour Panel, and was re-elected...
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Andrew Clarkin (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
at the 1952 Dublin North–West by-election. He died in 1955 during the 8th Seanad. He served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1951 to 1953. "Andrew Clarkin"...
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The 9th Seanad was in office from 1957 to 1961. An election to Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 1957 general...
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Louis Walsh (politician) (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
was an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1957, and from 1958 to 1961. He was elected to the 8th Seanad in 1954 by the Administrative...
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Eamon Kissane (category Members of the 8th Seanad)
7th Seanad, and in 1954, he was elected by the Cultural and Educational Panel to the 8th Seanad. The panel returned him to the next two Seanads, but...
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The Leader of the Seanad (referred to within the Seanad as Leader of the House Irish: Treoraí an Tí) is a member of Seanad Éireann appointed by the Taoiseach...
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