Jeremiah McVeagh (1870 – 17 April 1932) was an Irish

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politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the

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. He was born in Belfast in 1870, the son of Thomas McVeagh, a shipbuilder. He was educated at

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, Belfast, and at the

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. A journalist and

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by profession, in the 1890s, McVeagh was based in London, where he was active in the Irish National League of Great Britain. He was first elected as the

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MP for the South Down constituency at the 1902 by-election, and was again re-elected at the 1906, January 1910, December 1910 and

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general elections, and served until 1922 as member of the Nationalist Party. McVeagh was an unsuccessful candidate for the British Labour Party in

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at the

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. He was also unsuccessful in the

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and the

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, when he ran for the

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. In 1913 he presented the Jeremiah MacVeagh Cup to the Down County

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Board. The cup has been presented to the winners of the annual Down Senior Hurling Championship ever since. He never married. He died in a Dublin nursing home in 1932, following a series of heart attacks, and was buried in

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The Letters of Arnold Stephenson Rowntree to Mary Katherine Rowntree
by Arnold Stephenson Rowntree, Ian Packer, Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain), p. 29. * {{DEFAULTSORT:McVeagh, Jeremiah 1870 births 1932 deaths Irish barristers Irish Parliamentary Party MPs Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates Nationalist Party (Ireland) politicians Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Down constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 People from Belfast Alumni of the Royal University of Ireland People educated at St Malachy's College 19th-century Irish lawyers 20th-century Irish lawyers National League Party candidates in Dáil elections Members of the 1st Dáil