26 Facts About Timothy Quill

Timothy Quill was an Irish Labour Party politician, farmer and a figure in the history of the cooperative movement in Ireland.

Timothy Quill was a founder of the City of Cork Co-operative Society, and was the editor of The Cork Co-Operator publication.

Timothy Quill was manager and secretary of the Cork Co-operative Bakery Society.

Timothy Quill was an organiser for the Labour Party in Cork, a regional trade union secretary and one of a number of early Labour Dail members to promote Christian socialism.

Timothy Quill was born to Daniel and Mary Quill in Clondrohid, Macroom, County Cork, on 9 May 1901.

Timothy Quill was a regional trade union secretary for North-West Cork.

Timothy Quill was a councillor on Cork County Council at the time, having been elected in 1925.

Timothy Quill was 26 years old at the time of the general election on 9 June 1927 and was one of 44 Labour candidates in total.

In June 1927, at a meeting in North Cork, Timothy Quill outlined what he believed the Labour Party stood for.

Timothy Quill was the youngest member of the 5th Dail.

Timothy Quill spoke against the Public Safety Bill 1927 in August 1927.

Timothy Quill lost his seat at the September 1927 general election, serving only three months as a TD.

Timothy Quill did not contest the 1932 general election, declining to stand at a convention in Millstreet, Cork.

Timothy Quill ran again in the 1938 general election, this time as one of 30 Labour candidates, receiving 4,950 first preference votes, but was not elected.

Timothy Quill was elected to both the Cork County Council and the Cork Corporation that year.

Timothy Quill was at one time Chair of the South Cork Board of Public Assistance.

Timothy Quill was a member of the South Cork Board of Public Assistance and the South Cork Board of Public Health.

O'Riordan had retrospectively asserted that Timothy Quill was imposed as chair to ensure that Labour in Cork City could control the new branch.

O'Riordan stated that Timothy Quill had made an attack on what Timothy Quill "called 'the Jew boys' of Cork".

Timothy Quill was the secretary of the City of Cork Co-operative Society and manager and secretary of the Cork Co-operative Bakery Society.

Timothy Quill was a member of the Cork Co-operators' Guild.

Timothy Quill was the editor of The Cork Co-Operator, a monthly publication of the co-operative movement in Cork.

Timothy Quill frequently attended the Co-operative Congress in the UK throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

Timothy Quill resigned his position in the co-operative movement in 1954.

Timothy Quill served on the General Committee of the Munster Agricultural Society, wrote a farming column for The Cork Examiner and contributed to The Evening Echo under the pen name Carrigeen.

Timothy Quill died on 10 June 1960, aged 59 and was buried in St Finbarr's Cemetery.