James Gilhooly

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All-for-Ireland League group portrait of five of its Independent Members of Parliament, 1910.
These are: Patrick Guiney (North Cork), James Gilhooly (West Cork), Maurice Healy (North-east Cork), D. D. Sheehan (Mid Cork), and Eugene Crean (South-east Cork).

James Gilhooly (died October 16, 1916) was an Irish Nationalist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He represented his constituency (West Cork) for 30 years until his death.

First a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), was one of William O'Brien's closest political supporters, joining his seccession from the IPP in 1903, then elected in 1910 as a member of O'Briens's All-for-Ireland Party .

He was the son of a coastguard officer and a Bantry draper and storekeeper by trade. He married Mary Collins in 1882.

An old Fenian, during the Plan of Campaign in the late eighteen-eighties he was imprisoned several times under the Coercion Act, which permitted imprisonment without trial, and was some-time president of the local National League, chairman of the Rural District Council, and chair of the local branch of the United Irish League.

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Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, Who's Who in British Members of Parliament 1886-1918 p.136
Who Was Who 1916-1928 (Adam and Charles Black, London, 1929) p.407
Patrick Maume The long gestation "Who's Who" p.229