Joseph Michael MacDonagh (18 May 1883 – 25 December 1922) was an Irish

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politician. He was born in Cloughjordan,

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. His parents Joseph MacDonagh and Mary Parker were both national schoolteachers. His brothers included the executed 1916 Easter Rising leader Thomas MacDonagh and film director John MacDonagh. He was educated in his father's school in Cloughjordan, and at Rockwell College. He was elected unopposed as a

MP for the Tipperary North constituency at the 1918 general election. In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the

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and instead assembled at the Mansion House in

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as a revolutionary parliament called

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, though MacDonagh did not attend as he was in prison. He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin

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(TD) for the Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency at the 1921 elections. He also served as an alderman of Rathmines Urban District Council and Dublin Corporation between 1920 and 1922. He was Director of the "Belfast Boycott", an attempt in 1920–1921 to

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goods from

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that were being imported into the south of Ireland. He opposed the

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and voted against it. He was re-elected for the same constituency at the 1922 general election, this time as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD, but he did not take his seat in the Dáil. He died, while on hunger strike, from the effects of a burst appendix, on 25 December 1922.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macdonagh, Joseph 1883 births 1922 deaths People from Cloughjordan Early Sinn Féin TDs Members of the 1st Dáil Members of the 2nd Dáil Members of the 3rd Dáil Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tipperary constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1918–1922 Politicians from County Tipperary People educated at Rockwell College

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