Daniel Morrissey

Daniel Morrissey (28 November 1895 – 1981)^[1][2] was an Irish politician who served in Dáil Éireann for thirty-five years.^[3]

He was a native of Nenagh, County Tipperary. He was first elected to the 3rd Dáil at the 1922 general election as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for Tipperary Mid, North and South.^[4] He was elected at the 1932 general election as an independent, but joined Cumann na nGaedheal the following year.

In the First Inter-Party Government, he was appointed to the cabinet under John A. Costello in 1948 as Minister for Industry and Commerce. In 1954, he declined accepting a cabinet position in the Second Inter-Party Government due to his age.

In Professor Tom Garvin's review of the 1950s News from a New Republic, he comes in for praise as a moderniser and the instigator of the Industrial Development Authority. Garvin places him with a cross party group including Gerard Sweetman of Fine Gael and William Norton of the Labour Party as well as Seán Lemass of Fianna Fáil who were pushing a modernising agenda.

Morrissey was elected to Dáil Éireann at every election until the 1957 general election when he retired from politics.

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