- Paddy McLogan
Paddy J. McLogan ( _ga. Pádraig Mac Lógáin) (1897 – July 1964) was President of
Sinn Féin from 1950-53 and again from 1954 to 1962.Born in Markethill, Co Armagh, he spent some time in Scotland. He joined the
Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1913 and theIrish Volunteers . The same year he was imprisoned by the British authorities and went on ahunger strike in 1917 withThomas Ashe . He was in command of theIrish Republican Army inSouth Armagh during theIrish War of Independence .After the
Irish Civil War , he settled in Portlaoise and became a publican. From 1933 to 1938 he was an abstentionist RepublicanMember of Parliament for South Armagh constituency of theParliament of Northern Ireland .He chaired the 1934 IRA Army Convention. In 1936, the IRA set up
Cumann Poblachta na hÉireann , with McLogan as chairman and one of many Sinn Féin members of the party.He was interned from 1940 to 1941. In 1945 he chaired the first IRA Army Convention after the war. In 1950 he succeeded
Margaret Buckley as President of Sinn Féin, until 1953, and resumed that role in 1954 and was to remain in the post until 1962, when he resigned from the party.He died in July 1964, at his home in
Blanchardstown ,County Dublin , as a result of an accident involving a 9mmWalther pistol.External references
* [http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/armagh.html Election results for Armagh constituencies]
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