| Patrick Mcgilligan |
Article Index for Patrick |
Website Links For Patrick |
Information AboutPatrick Mcgilligan |
|
McGilligan was born on April 12 , 1889 in Coleraine , County Derry . He was educated in Derry , at Clongowes Wood in Dublin and at University College Dublin . He joined Sinn Féin but was unsuccessful in his attempt to be elected as a MP in 1918 . McGilligan was called to the bar in 1921 . In 1923 he was elected as a Cumann Na NGaedhael TD . Between 1924 and 1932 McGilligan served as Minister for Industry & Commerce. In 1927 he set up the Electricity Supply Board , or ESB, and also the Agricultural Credit Corporation . That same year McGilligan also took over the External Affairs portfolio following the assassination of Kevin O'Higgins by the anti- Treaty elements of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War . In this position he was hugely influential at the Committee On The Operation Of Dominion Legislation and at the Imperial Conference in 1930 (jointly with representatives of Australia , Canada , New Zealand , South Africa and the United Kingdom ). The Statute Of Westminster that emerged from these meetings gave greater power to Dominion s in the Commonwealth like the Irish Free State . During his period in opposition from 1932 to 1948 he built up a law practice and became professor of constitutional and international law at University College, Dublin . In 1948 McGilligan was appointed Minister for Finance in the first Inter-Party Government. Between 1954 and 1957 he served as Attorney-General . McGilligan retired from the Dáil in 1965 having served for over 40 years. Patrick McGilligan died in Dublin on 15 November 1979 . POLITICAL CAREER |
|
|