Connolly, Joseph (1885-1961)--DB9704
Biographical Notes
Date of birth and date of death
19.01.1885-18.01.1961
Maiden name, place of origin
Alexander Street West, Belfast, County Antrim
Marital status, religious denomination, children
Married to Róisín McGavock; Catholic; 8 Children (4 Daughters and 4 Sons)
Social background, family connections
Son of a master baker; Brother of Alexander Connolly, private secretary to Seán Lemass during his tenure as minister for industry and commerce, distant relative of revolutionary James Connolly, nephew-in-law of Eoin MacNeill, Gaelic scholar and nationalist politician
Education, occupation and public functions
Education
St Malachy's College, Belfast, 1897-1900
Occupation
Alesbury's coachbuilders and furnishing manufacturers, Edenderry and Navan: Managing director 1926-1932; United States-based importing business: Proprietor 1923-1929; Connolly house furnishers: Proprietor 1915-1921; Maguire and Edwards house furnishers 1903-1915; Coombe, Barbour and Coombe engineering company 1901; Connolly family bakery: Assistant 1900-1901
Functions in agricultural institutions
Functions in other institutions
Irish Office of Public Works: Chairman 1936-1950
Political activities
Office of the Controller of Censorship: Chief controller 1939-1941; Commission on Arterial Drainage: Member 1938-1940; Commission to advise the Irish government on the creation of a new second chamber: Member 1936; Minister for Lands 1933-1936; Minister for Posts and Telegraphs 1932-1933; Irish Press newspaper: Director 1930-; Seanad Eireann: Senator and leader of the Fianna Fáil group 1928-1936; Sinn Féin: Chairman 1923; National Land Bank: Executive 1923; Consul-general of the Irish Republic in the United States 1921-1922; Belfast Boycott: Member of the organising committee 1920-1921; Dáil Eireann: Member of the Commission of Inquiry into the Resources and Industries of Ireland 1919-1921; Imprisoned as an Irish Volunteer in Richmond Barracks, Dublin, and Knutsford and Reading jails, England, 1916; Irish Volunteers: Deputy chairman of organising committee for first Belfast company 1914; Freedom Club: Co-founder 1911
Short Biography
References
Own publications
- How Does She Stand? An Appeal to Young Ireland, Dublin 1953
- Memoirs of Senator Joseph Connolly, Dublin 1996 (Ed. J. Anthony Gaughan)
Sources
- Gaughan, J. Anthony, Joseph Connolly, Dictionary of Irish Biography Online