Name Joseph MacDonagh Died December 25, 1922 | Role Politician Party Sinn Fein | |
Joseph MacDonagh (18 May 1883 – 25 December 1922) was an Irish Sinn Fein politician. He was born in Cloughjordan, Tipperary, the brother of the executed 1916 Easter Rising leader Thomas MacDonagh and film director John MacDonagh.
He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Fein MP for the Tipperary North constituency at the 1918 general election. In January 1919, Sinn Fein MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dail Eireann, though MacDonagh did not attend as he was in prison. He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Fein Teachta Dala (TD) for the Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency at the 1921 elections. He also served as an alderman of Rathmines Urban District Council and Dublin Corporation between 1920 and 1922.
He was Director of the "Belfast Boycott", an attempt in 1920–21 to boycott goods from Ulster that were being imported into the south of Ireland. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. He was re-elected for the same constituency at the 1922 general election, this time as an anti-Treaty Sinn Fein TD, but he did not take his seat in the Dail. He died on hunger strike on Christmas Day 1922.