Charles McGleenan References Navigation menuBiographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of CommonsArmagh 1935Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results: Counties: ArmaghThe Round Table, Vol XLIDáil Éireann – Volume 126 – 19 July 1951: Committee on Finance – Six-County Oireachtas RepresentationArchivedArmagh 1950–1970
1895 births1974 deathsIrish Republican Army (1919–22) membersMembers of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1949–53Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1953–58Independent politicians in Northern IrelandPeople from County ArmaghMembers of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for County Armagh constituencies
Irish republicanIrish Republican ArmyIrish War of Independence1935 general electionArmaghIndependent RepublicanAnti-Partition League of IrelandabstentionismParliament of Northern IrelandIrish Labour PartyNationalist PartyCahir HealyJoe ConnellanEdward McCullaghDáilCon LehaneDáilSeanad ÉireannSeán MacBride19531958 general election1966 general election
Charles McGleenan (1895 – 1974[1]) was a farmer, Irish republican volunteer and political candidate.
McGleenan was an Irish Republican Army volunteer during the Irish War of Independence. He was interned at Newbridge Prison, but successfully escaped. He subsequently worked as a farmer of apples.[2]
At the 1935 general election, McGleenan stood in Armagh as an Independent Republican, winning 32.4% of the vote.[3] He joined the Anti-Partition League of Ireland (APL), which was founded in 1945.[2]
In May 1950, the APL conference voted down a motion calling for abstentionism from the Parliament of Northern Ireland. McGleenan had been a supporter of the motion, and when a local convention selected him as their candidate for the South Armagh by-election in 1950, this was in clear opposition to party policy. Despite this, the executive did not intervene,[4] and McGleenan was able to defeat an Irish Labour Party candidate.[5]
McGleenan did not take his seat,[2] but did join with the Nationalist Party MPs Cahir Healy, Joe Connellan and Edward McCullagh in lobbying for admission to the Dáil, as elected representatives of territory it claimed.[4] A motion from Con Lehane proposing this was rejected; later in the year, a more modest proposal by McGleenan to gain a right of audience in the Dáil or the Seanad Éireann was put by Seán MacBride, but also failed.[6][7]
McGleenan held his seat in an uncontested election in 1953, but stood down at the 1958 general election.[5] At the 1966 general election, McGleenan stood again in Armagh, on this occasion taking 28% of the vote.[8]
References
^ Ian McAllister and Richard Rose, United Kingdom Facts, p.55
^ abc Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons, election.demon.co.uk; accessed 4 March 2017.
^ Armagh 1935, ElectionsIreland.org; accessed 4 March 2017.
^ ab Michael Farrell, Northern Ireland: The Orange State
^ ab Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results: Counties: Armagh, election.demon.co.uk; accessed 4 March 2017.
^ The Round Table, Vol XLI (1951)
^ Dáil Éireann – Volume 126 – 19 July 1951: Committee on Finance – Six-County Oireachtas Representation Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ Armagh 1950–1970, ark.ac.uk; accessed 4 March 2017.
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