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Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain

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Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain
Teachta Dála
In office
March 1957 – October 1961
ConstituencyMonaghan
Personal details
Born1933
County Monaghan, Ireland
Died14 December 1994(1994-12-14) (aged 60–61)
County Monaghan, Ireland
Political partySinn Féin
RelativesFergal O'Hanlon (brother)

Éighneachán Ó hAnnluain[1] (Irish pronunciation: [ˈeːnʲəxaːn̪ˠ ˈhan̪ˠl̪ˠuənʲ]; 1933 – 14 December 1994; sometimes spelled Éineachán) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) at the 1957 general election for the Monaghan constituency.[2] He was one of four successful Sinn Féin candidates in that election, the others being Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, John Joe McGirl and John Joe Rice. None of the four took their seats, for Sinn Féin ran on an abstentionist platform.

In 1960, he was imprisoned for one month in Mountjoy Prison after refusing to pay a fine for the offence of collecting money for republican prisoners' dependents without a permit.[3]

He did not contest the 1961 general election.[4]

Ó hAnnluain died on 14 December 1994, aged 61, in Monaghan.[5][3]

His brother Fergal O'Hanlon was a member of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army. From 1999 until 2012, his sister Pádraigín Uí Mhurchadha was a Monaghan town councillor for Sinn Féin.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Issue of Writs and Names of Members". Houses of the Oireachtas. 20 March 1957. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Eineachán Ó hAnnluain". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Saoirse: Irish Freedom, issue 093 (January 1995), p.15". indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
  5. ^ "Announcements". The Irish Press. 15 December 1994.
  6. ^ Monaghan Town Council "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) List of elected representatives