In office
22 July 1954 – 22 May 1957
Constituency
In office
22 May 1957 – 14 December 1961
In office
21 April 1948 – 22 July 1954
Constituency
In office
18 August 1944 – 21 April 1948
In office
27 April 1938 – 8 September 1943
Constituency
Constituency
Personal details
Born
1892 (1892)
County Mayo, Ireland
Died
11 May 1964(1964-05-11) (aged 71–72)
County Dublin, Ireland
Political party
Spouse
M. Ellen Grimes
Children
8, including Jim
James Tunney (1892 – 11 May 1964) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served for seven terms in Seanad Éireann and for one term in Dáil Éireann.[1]
He was elected to the 2nd Seanad by the Labour Panel in 1938, he was re-elected that year to the 3rd Seanad. At the 1943 general election, he was elected as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin County constituency, but lost his seat at the 1944 general election.[2]
In the same year, Tunney was returned to the 5th Seanad by the Labour Panel. In 1948 he was elected to the 6th Seanad by the Agricultural Panel, which also elected him to the 7th Seanad in 1951. In 1954, he was nominated by the Taoiseach, John A. Costello to the 8th Seanad. In 1957, following the defeat of the Second Inter-Party Government, he was elected to the Seanad for a seventh and final time, again by the Agricultural Panel.
He did not contest the 1961 election for the 10th Seanad. He died on 11 May 1964.
His son Jim Tunney was a Fianna Fáil TD from 1969 to 1992.[3]
Dáil
Election
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
Deputy
(Party)
2nd
1921
Michael Derham
(SF)
Séamus Dwyer
(SF)
Frank Lawless
(SF)
Margaret Pearse
(SF)
6 seats
1921–1923
3rd
1922
Michael Derham
(PT-SF)
George Gavan Duffy
(PT-SF)
Thomas Johnson
(Lab)
Desmond FitzGerald
(PT-SF)
Darrell Figgis
(Ind)
John Rooney
(FP)
4th
1923
Michael Derham
(CnaG)
Bryan Cooper
(Ind)
Desmond FitzGerald
(CnaG)
John Good
(Ind)
Kathleen Lynn
(Rep)
Kevin O'Higgins
(CnaG)
1924 by-election
Batt O'Connor
(CnaG)
1926 by-election
William Norton
(Lab)
5th
1927 (Jun)
Patrick Belton
(FF)
Seán MacEntee
(FF)
1927 by-election
Gearóid O'Sullivan
(CnaG)
6th
1927 (Sep)
Bryan Cooper
(CnaG)
Joseph Murphy
(Ind)
Seán Brady
(FF)
1930 by-election
Thomas Finlay
(CnaG)
7th
1932
Patrick Curran
(Lab)
Henry Dockrell
(CnaG)
8th
1933
John A. Costello
(CnaG)
1935 by-election
Cecil Lavery
(FG)
9th
1937
Henry Dockrell
(FG)
Gerrard McGowan
(Lab)
Patrick Fogarty
(FF)
5 seats
1937–1948
10th
1938
Patrick Belton
(FG)
Thomas Mullen
(FF)
11th
1943
Liam Cosgrave
(FG)
James Tunney
(Lab)
12th
1944
Patrick Burke
(FF)
1947 by-election
Seán MacBride
(CnaP)
13th
1948
Éamon Rooney
(FG)
Seán Dunne
(Lab)
3 seats
1948–1961
14th
1951
15th
1954
16th
1957
Kevin Boland
(FF)
17th
1961
Mark Clinton
(FG)
Seán Dunne
(Ind)
5 seats
1961–1969
18th
1965
Des Foley
(FF)
Seán Dunne
(Lab)
19th
1969
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