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Garrett Byrne (Irish politician)

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123:, when he defeated the Conservative candidate by more than 4 to 1. When the Irish Parliamentary Party split in December 1890 over Parnell's leadership, Byrne supported Parnell. Shortly afterwards he was declared bankrupt, in January 1891, as a result of the insolvency of the estate and mortgage broking business which he had set up in 1885. This had been established with a capital of £10,000 and owned various properties in London, Liverpool and Dublin. It had failed owing to inability to realise property due to depreciation in its value, and losses through bad debts. Byrne's ill-health was also mentioned as a factor. Although the business was insolvent, it had a surplus of assets and after this was realised, Byrne's bankruptcy was discharged in August 1891. 453: 408: 137:
Byrne died in Mercer's Hospital, Dublin, on 3 March 1897 of septicaemia contracted as a result of a head wound sustained in an accident on the previous 13 February in Grafton Street, Dublin, when he was run down by a Hackney carriage. The inquest on 4 March was conducted by his former Parnellite
80:, Co. Dublin and of Mary Anne Byrne, second daughter of Garrett Byrne of Dungarvstown, Co. Wicklow. He was educated privately and at Leopardstown College. In 1855 he married Sarah Dillon, second daughter of James Dillon, a Wicklow merchant. She died in 1875. 103:
on Easter Sunday, 28 March 1880, in which Parnell himself was physically attacked. O’Clery went on to contest the election the following month, but Byrne was elected by a majority of over 2,000. In the vital vote of 17 May 1880 in which Parnell displaced
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At an early age Byrne was overseer for the contractors building the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway. He was then the Liverpool agent for a Dublin brewery. In 1856 he was appointed an officer of Customs and Surveyor to the Board of Trade at Liverpool.
112:, Byrne voted for Parnell. He took part in the subsequent Parnellite campaign of Parliamentary obstruction. He resigned in June 1883 after just over three years owing to ill-health, to be replaced in his Wexford seat by another Home Ruler, 158:
Both ‘Garret’ and ‘Garrett’ are found. The Times always has ‘Garrett’. O’Connor (1886) has ‘Garret’ but his indexer has ‘Garrett’. Lyons (1977) has ‘Garret’. ‘Garrett’ is used here because it occurs more
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Byrne retired from Parliament at the 1892 general election, aged about 63; his West Wicklow seat was contested in the Parnellite interest by Charles Stewart Parnell's brother
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The Times, 6/10/1885; O’Connor (1886), p.368; see also Pakenham (1969), pp.97, 315. O’Connor refers to the ‘Rebellion of ‘48’ but this is presumably a misprint for ’98.
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Wexford constituencies (1801–1922)
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The Year of Liberty: The story of the great Irish Rebellion of 1798
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Byrne stood for Parliament again for West Wicklow in the
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Website presenting research on the Byrnes of Ballymanus
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Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922
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Index

Garrett Michael Byrne
Irish
nationalist
MP
House of Commons
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Irish Parliamentary Party
County Wexford
West Wicklow
Charles Stewart Parnell
Arklow
Irish Rebellion of 1798
Ballybrack
Irish Home Rule
general election of 1880
Keyes O'Clery
Enniscorthy
William Shaw
Home Rule League
John Francis Small
general election of December 1885
John Howard Parnell
James O'Connor
Dr Joseph Kenny
Irish Times
F. S. L. Lyons
T. P. O'Connor
Thomas Pakenham
The Times
Website presenting research on the Byrnes of Ballymanus

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