Patrick Donnelly (politician)
Patrick Donnelly (1878 – 13 August 1947) was an Irish solicitor and nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
A native of Draperstown, County Derry, Donnelly was the son of Patrick Donnelly, a spirit merchant and farmer, and his wife, Sarah. He was living in Camlough at the time of the 1901 census.[1]
Donnelly was first elected as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party at the by-election of 2 February 1918, and re-elected in the 1918 UK general election, representing the South Armagh constituency. It was one of the six seats won by the IPP at the election, when he defeated the Sinn Féin candidate, after which he served as a member of the Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland until 1922.
He unsuccessfully contested the Northern Ireland general election, 1929 for South Armagh as an Independent Nationalist, coming second with 46.3 percent of the vote.
According to an obituary, he was the second last of the surviving MPs who hated voted against the Treaty of Versailles. He died at his residence at Windsor Hill, Newry.[2]
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