13 Facts About Tadhg Crowley

Tadhg Crowley was an Irish revolutionary and Fianna Fail politician.

Tadhg Crowley was first elected to Dail Eireann as a Teachta Dala for the Limerick constituency at the June 1927 general election.

Tadhg Crowley was inducted into the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1915 by Ernest Blythe, with his many brothers soon to follow, and later that same year attended the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa at Glasnevin Cemetery.

Tadhg Crowley was later arrested, and sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude, a sentence which he did not end up fully serving after the Anglo-Irish Treaty came into effect.

Tadhg Crowley was arrested in October 1922 and interned in Limerick Prison until April 1923.

Tadhg Crowley was elected to the 5th Dail as a Fianna Fail candidate for the Limerick constituency at the June 1927 general election.

Tadhg Crowley was re-elected at each subsequent general election until he lost his seat at the 1937 general election.

Tadhg Crowley regained his seat at the 1938 general election and held it at the 1943 general election, but lost his seat again at the 1944 general election.

Tadhg Crowley was elected to the 5th Seanad in 1944 by the Industrial and Commercial Panel.

Tadhg Crowley was once more elected to the Dail at the 1951 general election and was re-elected at the 1954 general election.

Tadhg Crowley did not contest the 1957 general election but did contest the 1957 Seanad election, and was elected to the 9th Seanad by the Industrial and Commercial Panel.

Tadhg Crowley died on 25 July 1969, in his sister's home in Scarteen, aged 79.

Tadhg Crowley was buried in Ladywell Cemetery, Ballylanders, in the Republican plot, along with his brothers Joseph and Michael.