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Seamus Hughes (trade unionist)
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'''James Joseph (Seamus) Hughes''' (; 18 May 1881–23 January 1943) was an Irish trade unionist, revolutionary, composer, and public servant.
He was born near [[Mountjoy Square]], Dublin, to James Hughes, a baker from [[County Offaly]]. His mother died of TB when he was six. He attended [[O'Connell School]] and spent time at a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] seminary in [[Voiron]], France. He taught French in [[Newbridge College]] and was a clerk at a firm exporting eggs. He married Josephine Hackett from [[Milltown, Dublin]] in 1912; they had five children. He was in the [[Irish Republican Brotherhood]] and the [[Irish Socialist Republican Party]], and with the [[Irish Citizen Army]] in Jacob's during the [[Easter Rising]], subsequently imprisoned until May 1917. He was acting secretary of the [[ITGWU]] while [[Jim Larkin]] was in America, but was ousted by [[William X. O'Brien]]. He was arrested at [[Liberty Hall]] after [[Bloody Sunday (1920)|Bloody Sunday 1920]]. He joined the [[Irish civil service]] under the [[Provisional Government of Ireland|1922 Provisional Government]] and was the first secretary of [[Cumann na nGaedheal]]. He lost narrowly to [[Seán Lemass]] in a [[Dáil by-election]] in 1924. From 1925 he worked for [[2RN]], later [[Radio Éireann]], becoming its director of programming in 1929. [[Frank Gallagher (author)|Frank Gallagher]] took most of his functions in 1935, leaving Hughes only Irish-language programming. During [[the Emergency (Ireland)|the Emergency]] he was transferred to censorship of post.
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[[Category:1881 births]]
[[Category:1943 deaths]]
[[Category:Irish trade unionists]]
[[Category:Cumann na nGaedheal politicians]]
[[Category:Irish composers]]
[[Category:RTÉ executives]]
[[Category:Irish schoolteachers]]
[[Category:Irish civil servants]]
[[Category:Irish Citizen Army members]]
He was born near [[Mountjoy Square]], Dublin, to James Hughes, a baker from [[County Offaly]]. His mother died of TB when he was six. He attended [[O'Connell School]] and spent time at a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] seminary in [[Voiron]], France. He taught French in [[Newbridge College]] and was a clerk at a firm exporting eggs. He married Josephine Hackett from [[Milltown, Dublin]] in 1912; they had five children. He was in the [[Irish Republican Brotherhood]] and the [[Irish Socialist Republican Party]], and with the [[Irish Citizen Army]] in Jacob's during the [[Easter Rising]], subsequently imprisoned until May 1917. He was acting secretary of the [[ITGWU]] while [[Jim Larkin]] was in America, but was ousted by [[William X. O'Brien]]. He was arrested at [[Liberty Hall]] after [[Bloody Sunday (1920)|Bloody Sunday 1920]]. He joined the [[Irish civil service]] under the [[Provisional Government of Ireland|1922 Provisional Government]] and was the first secretary of [[Cumann na nGaedheal]]. He lost narrowly to [[Seán Lemass]] in a [[Dáil by-election]] in 1924. From 1925 he worked for [[2RN]], later [[Radio Éireann]], becoming its director of programming in 1929. [[Frank Gallagher (author)|Frank Gallagher]] took most of his functions in 1935, leaving Hughes only Irish-language programming. During [[the Emergency (Ireland)|the Emergency]] he was transferred to censorship of post.
==References==
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==Further reading==
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[[Category:1881 births]]
[[Category:1943 deaths]]
[[Category:Irish trade unionists]]
[[Category:Cumann na nGaedheal politicians]]
[[Category:Irish composers]]
[[Category:RTÉ executives]]
[[Category:Irish schoolteachers]]
[[Category:Irish civil servants]]
[[Category:Irish Citizen Army members]]
February 08, 2018 at 05:22AM
