1. Patrick McCartan was an Irish republican and politician.
19 Facts About Patrick McCartan
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Patrick McCartan served the First Dail on diplomatic missions to the United States and Soviet Russia.
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Patrick McCartan returned to public life in 1948, serving in Seanad Eireann for Clann na Poblachta.
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Patrick McCartan was born in Eskerbuoy, near Carrickmore, County Tyrone, one of five children, to Bernard McCartan, a farmer, and Bridget Rafferty.
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Patrick McCartan emigrated to the USA as a young man and became a member of Clan na Gael in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and edited the journal Irish Freedom.
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Patrick McCartan returned to Ireland some years later and qualified as a doctor.
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Patrick McCartan continued working with nationalist politics and worked closely with Bulmer Hobson and Denis McCullough with the Dungannon Clubs and the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
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Patrick McCartan was arrested after the Rising and interned in an open prison in England.
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Patrick McCartan contested the by-election in South Armagh for Sinn Fein but lost out to the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate.
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Patrick McCartan was later elected in a by-election in Tullamore in 1918.
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At the meeting of the First Dail in January 1919 Patrick McCartan was appointed Sinn Fein's envoy in the USA where he would remain until 1921.
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In late 1920 Patrick McCartan outlined some of the atrocities being committed by British troops in Ireland.
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In 1920 Patrick McCartan helped organize the American Commission on Ireland which held public hearings in Washington on the causes and facts associated with the ongoing violence in Ireland.
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Patrick McCartan assisted with the development of the "American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic".
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Patrick McCartan ran in a March 1925 by-election to the 1922 Seanad caused by the death of George Sigerson.
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Patrick McCartan finished second of five candidates, losing to John O'Neill in the final ballot of senators by 30 votes to 29.
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Patrick McCartan stood again in the September 1925 Seanad election, in which 19 seats were contested, finishing 74th of the 78 candidates in the nationwide poll.
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Patrick McCartan became a founder member of Clann na Poblachta and contested the 1948 general election without success.
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Patrick McCartan was an admirer of National Socialist ideals and an active supporter of the pro-Axis in front organisations such as Irish Friends of Germany.