The Irish Parliamentary Party

New Zealand Tablet, 17 March 1910, Page 423

The Irish Parliamentary Party

-We wore informed by cable message on Monday of the deaths of Mr. T. C. Harrington, M.P. for Dublin (Harbor Division), and Mr. J. O’Connor, M.P. for Kildare North. Mr. Timothy Charles Harrington, LL.B., son of Mr. Denis Harrington, of Castletown-Bere, County Cork, was born in 1851, and was educated at Trinity College, ; Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1887. He was for many years connected with newspapers, having been proprietor and editor during the stormy days of the Land League. He occupied the post of secretary to Mr. Parnell for a time, and in recent- years was hon. secretary of the National League. He was one.,;' of ■- the - counsel for Mr. Parnell at the Special Commission, of 1888-9, and had been thrice Lord Mayor of Dublin. ' He was returned unopposed at the' recent election. " -' *■ ■• Mr. John O’Connor, who has represented' North Kildare since 1905, was in his sixtieth year. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1893. He was M.P. for - the South Division of Tipperary from 1885-92. .