Timothy Charles Harrington
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Timothy Charles Harrington (1851 – 12 March 1910 was an Irish Member of Parliament in the UK House of Commons. He served as Lord Mayor of Dublin thrice - 1901-04. Harrington was a member of the so-called Bantry band of prominent nationalist politicians from the Bantry vicinity. They were also more pejoratively known as the Pope's brass band. T.M. Healy was another prominent member of this unofficial group.
He was educated at the Catholic University of Ireland and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a barrister and owned two newspapers, United Ireland and the Kerry Sentinel.
Harrington represented Westmeath February 1883-November 1885, as a Nationalist supporter of the Irish Parliamentary Party. In 1885 he was elected for the new constituency of Dublin Harbour, which he represented until his death in 1910.
Harrington was a supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell and became a Parnellite Nationalist when the party split in 1891. He became Secretary of the Irish National League. In 1897 he proclaimed himself an Independent Nationalist. However from the 1900 general election he stood for election as a Nationalist again, after the Irish Parliamentary Party re-united that year.
He was noted as a particularly hardline nationalist. For instance, in 1902, during Harrington's mayoralty, Edward VII visited Dublin but Harrington refused to even meet his sovereign lord. Harrington is celebrated by a statue erected in 2001 at the east end of Castletownbere near the Millbrook bar.
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- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Vol. II 1886-1918, edited by M. Stenton & S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1978)
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
