1. Augustine Mary Moore Stack was an Irish republican and politician who served as Minister for Home Affairs from 1921 to 1922.
17 Facts About Austin Stack
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Austin Stack was a Teachta Dala from 1918 to 1927.
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Austin Stack was born in Ballymullen, Tralee, County Kerry, to William Austin Stack, an attorney's clerk, and Nanette O'Neill.
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Austin Stack was educated at the Christian Brothers School in Tralee.
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Austin Stack served as President of the Gaelic Athletic Association's Kerry County Board.
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Austin Stack became politically active in 1908 when he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
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Austin Stack was made aware that Casement was arrested on Easter Saturday and was being held in Tralee.
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Austin Stack made no attempt to rescue him from Ballymullen Barracks.
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Austin Stack was arrested and sentenced to death for his involvement in the Rising; however, this was later commuted to penal servitude for life.
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Austin Stack was a leader of Irish Republican prisoners and led several hunger strikes in resistance to being treated as criminals.
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Austin Stack was released under general amnesty in June 1917 and was elected as an abstentionist Sinn Fein MP for Kerry West at the 1918 Westminster election, becoming a member of the 1st Dail.
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Austin Stack opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and took part in the subsequent Civil War, acting as deputy chief of staff for anti treaty leader Frank Aiken.
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Austin Stack was captured on 14 April 1923 and went on hunger strike for forty-one days before being released along with approximately 15,000 Sinn Fein and IRA prisoners in July 1924.
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Austin Stack was elected to the Third Dail at the 1922 general election and subsequent elections as an Anti-Treaty Sinn Fein TD for the Kerry constituency.
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When Eamon de Valera founded Fianna Fail in 1926, Austin Stack remained with Sinn Fein being re-elected to the Dail at the June 1927 general election.
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Austin Stack did not contest the September 1927 general election.
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Austin Stack went his way, suffered their will, and stood his ground doggedly, smiling now and again.