Patrick Joseph Cahill was an Irish Sinn Fein politician and newspaper editor.
14 Facts About Patrick Cahill
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Patrick Cahill was born in Caherina, Tralee, County Kerry, to Timothy Cahill of Glenbeigh, and Mary Cahill of Killorglin.
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Patrick Cahill was educated at CBS Tralee and Blackrock College, Dublin, where he began a lifelong friendship with Eamon de Valera.
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Patrick Cahill played with the Kerry team which defeated Dublin in the 1904 All-Ireland Final, and in the Kerry team which lost to Kildare in the 1905 Final.
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Patrick Cahill was involved in the attempt to land arms from the Aud in April 1916, he was arrested after the Easter Rising and interned at various prisons until the general release of December 1916.
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Patrick Cahill was rearrested in September 1917, and not released until February 1919.
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Patrick Cahill was leader of the Kerry 1st Brigade of the Irish Republican Army.
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Patrick Cahill's units operated in and around Tralee during the Irish War of Independence.
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Patrick Cahill opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it.
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Patrick Cahill was re-elected unopposed as an anti-Treaty Sinn Fein TD to the 3rd Dail at the 1922 general election though he did not take his seat.
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Patrick Cahill was arrested and interned, and went on a forty-two-day hunger strike.
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Patrick Cahill was elected as a Sinn Fein TD at the 1923 general election for the Kerry constituency.
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Patrick Cahill did not stand in the June 1927 general election.
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Patrick Cahill never married and died on 12 November 1946 at the Bon Secour Nursing Home, Tralee.