10 Facts About Joseph MacDonagh

Joseph Michael MacDonagh was an Irish Sinn Fein politician.

Joseph MacDonagh's brothers included the executed 1916 Easter Rising leader Thomas MacDonagh and film director John MacDonagh.

Joseph MacDonagh was educated in his father's school in Cloughjordan, and at Rockwell College.

Joseph MacDonagh was elected unopposed as a Sinn Fein MP for the Tipperary North constituency at the 1918 general election.

In January 1919, Sinn Fein MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dail Eireann, though MacDonagh did not attend as he was in prison.

Joseph MacDonagh was elected unopposed as a Sinn Fein Teachta Dala for the Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency at the 1921 elections.

Joseph MacDonagh served as an alderman of Rathmines and Rathgar Urban District Council and Dublin Corporation between 1920 and 1922.

Joseph MacDonagh opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it.

Joseph MacDonagh was re-elected for the same constituency at the 1922 general election as an anti-Treaty Sinn Fein TD, but he did not take his seat in the Dail.

Joseph MacDonagh died, while on hunger strike, from the effects of a burst appendix, on 25 December 1922.