Dermot O'Mahony (2 April 1881 – 22 April 1960) was an Irish

Ireland

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 politician and farmer. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann

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 as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála

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 (TD) for the Wicklow

Wicklow (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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 constituency at the June 1927 general election. He was re-elected at the September 1927, 1932

Irish general election, 1932

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 and 1933

Irish general election, 1933

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 general elections. He was re-elected at the 1937 general election

Irish general election, 1937

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 as a Fine Gael

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 TD. He lost his seat at the 1938 general election

Irish general election, 1938

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.

His father Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony

Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony

Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony , known up to 1901 as Pierce Mahony, and from 1912 also as The O'Mahony of Kerry, was an Irish Protestant nationalist politician and philanthropist, who practised as a barrister from 1898 to 1900...

 was an Irish Parliamentary Party

Irish Parliamentary Party

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 Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for North Meath

North Meath (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1886–1892, and his great-grandfather Pierce Mahony (1792–1853) was a Repeal

Repeal Association

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MP for Kinsale in 1837.