Timothy Michael Healy
Irish politician and barrister (1855-1931) · Ireland · On the map · Politicians · Died at 75
Timothy Michael Healy, KC was an Irish barrister, nationalist politician, journalist and author. His political career began in the 1880s when he became a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons and continued into the 1920s, when he was appointed as the first governor-general of the Irish Free State.
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Plaque commemorating Tim Healy's birth on Bantry's Wolfe Tone Square.
Healy caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1886
Healy, c. 1900
All-for-Ireland League group portrait of five of its Independent Members of Parliament, 1910. These are: Patrick Guiney (North Cork), James Gilhooly (West Cork), Maurice Healy (North-east Cork), D. D. Sheehan (Mid Cork), and Eugene Crean (South-east Cork). The other MPs elected in January 1910 were: William O'Brien (Cork city), John O'Donnell (South Mayo) and Timothy Michael Healy (North Louth).Maurice and Timothy Healy were brothers.
Healy, on the first day of the Dublin Horse Show, meeting women from the Industry Workers of County Longford, 14 August 1923
Statement on Irish Free State passport (1927): We Timothy Healy, Esquire, one of His Majesty's Counsel, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, Request and require, in the Name of His Britannic Majesty, all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely … etc.
