Councillor Richard O'Carroll TC (Dublin, 1876–1916) was a founding member of the Labour Party alongside James Connolly and many other trade unionists and fellow socialists in Clonmel, Ireland in 1912.
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Career
O'Carroll held the position of General Secretary of the Bricklayers Union from 1907 until his untimely death in 1916. He was also a City Councillor during that period. He was known as an active and critical Poor Law Guardian in his time.
Death
O'Carroll was shot by a British soldier and mortally wounded on 26 April 1916, at the height of the Easter Rising. His death appears to have been part of the same murderous spree that also killed the pacifist Francis Sheehy-Skeffington.
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