Thomas J. O'Connell [SEP] date of death
Thomas J. O'Connell
Thomas Joseph O'Connell (21 November 1882 – 22 June 1969) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party from 1927 to 1932. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1922 to 1932. He was a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from 1938 to 1944, 1948 to 1951 and 1954 to 1957.
O'Connell was born near Knock, County Mayo. From 1902 to 1916 he worked first as a national teacher and then as a school principal.
Fianna Fáil, TD for Dublin North-West and Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works.
- Full date unknown
Deaths.
- 16 February – Mainie Jellett, abstract painter (born 1897).
- 19 February – J. J. "Ginger" O'Connell, officer in the Irish Volunteers and Irish Defence Forces (born 1887).
- 15 March – Thomas Byrne, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1898 at the Battle of Omdurman,