Edward Vincent McCullagh was a nationalist politician

Politician

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 and farmer

Farmer

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 in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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McCullagh was a member of Omagh

Omagh

Omagh is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. The town, which is the largest in the county, had a population of 19,910 at the 2001 Census. Omagh also contains the headquarters of Omagh District Council and...

 Rural District Council and was active in his local Gaelic Athletic Association

Gaelic Athletic Association

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. In 1948, he won a by-election in Mid Tyrone

Mid Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

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 and was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland

Parliament of Northern Ireland

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 for the Nationalist Party

Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)

The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP....

. His chief interests in Parliament were farming and rural issues.

McCullagh held his seat at the 1949 general election

Northern Ireland general election, 1949

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, then worked with the Nationalist MPs Cahir Healy

Cahir Healy

Cahir Healy was an Irish politician.Born in Mountcharles in County Donegal, he became a journalist working on various local papers. He joined Sinn Féin on its foundation in 1905. He later campaigned against the inclusion of County Fermanagh and County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, arguing that they...

 and Joe Connellan

Joe Connellan

Joseph Connellan, known as Joe Connellan was a nationalist politician and newspaper editor in Ireland.Connellan joined Sinn Féin in 1908 and was prominent in the Newry Sluagh....

 and the independent Republican Charles McGleenan

Charles McGleenan

Charles McGleenan was a farmer and a Republican politician in Northern Ireland.McGleenan was a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence. He was interned in Newbridge Prison, but successfully escaped...

 in lobbying for admission to the Dáil, as elected representatives of territory it claimed. A motion from Con Lehane

Con Lehane (Irish republican)

Con Lehane was a left-wing nationalist, a 1930s member of the IRA Army Council, solicitor, and Dáil Éireann representative, elected in the 1948 general election for one term for Clann na Poblachta for the Dublin South Central constituency. He lost his seat at the 1951 general election...

 proposing this was rejected.

McCullagh lost his seat to the Anti-Partition candidate Liam Kelly

Liam Kelly (Irish republican)

Liam Kelly was an Irish republican, who was elected both to House of Commons of Northern Ireland and as a member of Seanad Éireann...

 at the 1953 general election

Northern Ireland general election, 1953

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