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Daniel Desmond Sheehan, usually known as D. D. Sheehan (28 May 1873 – 28 November 1948) was an Irish nationalist, politician, labour leader, journalist, barrister and author. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland representing Mid-Cork from 1901 to 1918,〔Walker, Brian M. (ed.): ''Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, Royal Irish Academy Press, Dublin (1978)〕 a constituency comprising the districts of Ahadallane, Ballincollig, Ballyvourney, Blarney, Coachford, Farran, Inchigeela, Macroom, Millstreet and Shandangan.〔Guy's Cork City & County Almanac & Directory 1907, 1910, 1913, Parliamentary Electoral Division Mid-Cork: (Cork City Council Library )〕 As co-founder and President of the Irish Land and Labour Association, he was credited with considerable success in land reform, labour reforms and in rural state housing. From 1909, he was General Secretary of the Central Executive of the All-for-Ireland League, favouring a policy of National reconciliation between all creeds and classes in Ireland. During World War I he served as Irish regiments officer with the 16th (Irish) Division in France, 1915–16.〔''Who's Who'' 1915 and 1918; ''Thom's Directory'' 1918〕 He resigned his parliamentary seat in 1918 and lived in England for several years, returning to Dublin following the ending of the civil war, when he was appointed editor of the ''Dublin Chronicle''.〔Cadogan, Tim & Falvey, Jeremiah: ''A Biographical Dictionary of Cork'', Four Courts Press (2006), (Cork City Council Library )〕 ==Journalistic beginnings== Sheehan was born in Dromtariffe, near Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland, the second eldest of three sons and one daughter of Daniel Sheehan senior and Ellen Sheehan (née Fitzgerald). His father was a tenant farmer. He was educated at the local primary school; in 1880 when he was seven years old, the family experienced eviction from the family homestead at the onset of the Irish Land League's Land War, when tenant farmers united to protest against landlords' excessive and unjust rents by withholding payment. Sheehan's family were supporters of the Fenian tradition, and his experience of discrimination made him a strong supporter of Irish nationalism. Sheehan was a continued supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell after the 'Parnell split' of 1890 in the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) and became a Parnellite. He always remembered his only meeting with Parnell at Tralee, when Parnell was presented with a loyal address (drafted by Sheehan) from his Killarney supporters.〔Maume, Patrick in: McGuire, James and Quinn, James (eds): ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002; Royal Irish Academy Vol. 8, Sheehan, D. D.: pp.875–78; Cambridge University Press (2009) ISBN 978-0-521-19983-4〕 He began his career as a schoolteacher at the age of 16, studying land law and legal procedure when time allowed. He undertook part-time journalism from 1890 and was otherwise self-educated to a high literary degree. Sheehan was correspondent for the ''Kerry Sentinel'', and later special correspondent to the ''Cork Daily Herald'' in Killarney. After he married in 1894, he moved in pursuit of journalistic experience temporarily to Scotland where in 1896 he joined the staff of the ''Glasgow Observer'', then becoming London editor of the ''Catholic News'' in Preston, England. In 1898, with the beginning of national self-reliance under the revolutionary ''Local Government Act (1898)'', which established the enfranchment of local electors and the creation of Local County Councils for the first time, allowing the development of a new political class capable of taking local affairs into their own hands, Sheehan returned to Ireland. He worked initially on various papers in Munster including the ''Cork Constitution'' and from 1899 until 1901 as editor of the ''The Southern Star'', Skibbereen,〔"Cork County Southern Star" newspaper Skibbereen, Centenary Supplement (1889–1989), p.38: ''Turn of the century editor'', Cork City Library〕 in which role it assured for the ILLA as well as the recently founded United Irish League that their branch reports were given weekly press coverage, particularly crucial for the expansion and growth of the UIL in Cork.〔O’Donovan, John: ''Class, Conflict, and the United Irish League in Cork, 1900–1903'' in SAOTHAR 37 pp.19–29, Journal of the Irish Labour History Society p.20, (2012) ISSN 0332-1169〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「D. D. Sheehan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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