John M. O'Sullivan
John M. O'Sullivan | |
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Minister for Education | |
In office 28 January 1926 – 9 March 1932 | |
President | W. T. Cosgrave |
Preceded by | Eoin MacNeill |
Succeeded by | Thomas Derrig |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance | |
In office 1 December 1924 – 27 January 1926 | |
President | W. T. Cosgrave |
Preceded by | New office |
Succeeded by | Eamonn Duggan |
Teachta Dála | |
In office July 1937 – June 1943 | |
Constituency | Kerry North |
In office August 1923 – July 1937 | |
Constituency | Kerry |
Personal details | |
Born | John Marcus O'Sullivan 18 February 1881 Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland |
Died | 9 February 1948 Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland | (aged 66)
Political party | Fine Gael |
Education | |
Alma mater | |
John Marcus O'Sullivan (18 February 1881 – 9 February 1948) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Education from 1926 to 1932 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance from 1924 to 1926. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1923 to 1943.[1]
O'Sullivan was born in Killarney, County Kerry in 1881. He was educated at St. Brendan's, Killarney, Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare, and later at University College Dublin (UCD), University of Bonn and Heidelberg University, where he was awarded a PhD. He was appointed to the Chair of Modern History at UCD in 1910.[2]
He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 as a Cumann na nGaedheal TD for the Kerry North constituency.[3] He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance from 1924 to 1926. He was appointed to the Cabinet in 1926, serving under W. T. Cosgrave as Minister for Education. In 1926, a report from the Second National Programme Conference was presented to him as the Minister for Education. He accepted all proposals stated in the report to be recommended as a national curriculum. His major ministerial achievement was the Vocational Education Act 1930.[2] He served on the Irish delegation to the League of Nations, in 1924 and from 1928 to 1930. He was re-elected at every election until 1943 when he lost his Dáil seat.[3] He subsequently retired from politics.
O'Sullivan died in 1948, five years after retiring from politics.
References
- ^ "John Marcus O'Sullivan". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ a b "John Marcus O'Sullivan". University College Dublin Archives. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ a b "John Marcus O'Sullivan". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
External links
- Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource. . . Dublin:
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