Patrick Gaffney (politician)

Patrick Gaffney (died 1943) was a left-wing Irish politician. A flour miller from County Carlow, he was returned for the Labour Party in Carlow–Kilkenny at the 1922 general election.[1] He left Labour to join the Communist Party of Ireland in protest over the Constitution of the Irish Free State's requiring the Oath of Allegiance for all legislators.[2] He participated in the Third Dáil when it met as a "Provisional Parliament and Constituent Assembly" in September 1922, but withdrew when it became the Free State Dáil in December as the Constitution came into force and the Oath was required.[3][4] He stood as a "Republican Labour" candidate in the 1923 general election but was defeated.[5]

References
  1. "Patrick Gaffney". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
  2. Treacy, Matt (2012). The Communist Party of Ireland 1921 - 2011. Lulu.com. p. 11. ISBN 9781291093186. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  3. McCartney, Donal (2008). "Parliamentary representation and electoral politics in Carlow". In Mcgrath, Thomas (ed.). Carlow: History & Society : Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County. series editor William Nolan. Geography Publications. p. 915.
  4. Laffan, Michael (1999-12-02). The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Féin Party, 1916–1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 391. ISBN 9781139426299. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  5. Clarkson, Jesse Dunsmore (1925). Labour and Nationalism in Ireland. Studies in history, economics, and public law. 266. Columbia University. p. 463.


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