Matthew Keating (politician)
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Matthew Keating was an Irish politician. He was born at Mountain Ash, south Wales, the second son of Cornelius Keating, a native of Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry. He was educated at the local Catholic Elementary School and became a miner with Nixon's Navigation Collieries Ltd. Subsequently, he went into business at Cardiff and Newport, moving to London in 1898.
He was elected unopposed as Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament
for South Kilkenny
at a by-election in 1909, after his predecessor N. J. Murphy was declared bankrupt, and held the seat until the 1918 general election
, when he was defeated by the Sinn Fein
candidate James O'Mara
by 8,685 votes to 1,855.
He took a keen interest in literary affairs and was a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
.
In 1913 he married Hannah Sweeney, of Gore, New Zealand, whose family were from Co. Donegal. He died at his home at Cricklewood, London.
He was elected unopposed as Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for South Kilkenny
South Kilkenny (UK Parliament constituency)
South Kilkenny was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:This county constituency comprised the southern part of County Kilkenny...
at a by-election in 1909, after his predecessor N. J. Murphy was declared bankrupt, and held the seat until the 1918 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1918
The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did...
, when he was defeated by the Sinn Fein
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
candidate James O'Mara
James O'Mara
James O'Mara was an Irish bacon merchant and politician who became a nationalist leader and key member of the revolutionary First Dáil. As an MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, he introduced the bill which made Saint Patrick's Day a national holiday in Ireland in 1903...
by 8,685 votes to 1,855.
He took a keen interest in literary affairs and was a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Royal Statistical Society
The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...
.
In 1913 he married Hannah Sweeney, of Gore, New Zealand, whose family were from Co. Donegal. He died at his home at Cricklewood, London.