Thomas Michael Kettle was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, war poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Tyrone from 1906 to 1910 at Westminster.
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Thomas M. Kettle as a student at Clongowes Wood College
Thomas Michael Kettle
Thomas Kettle Memorial
The 153rd session of the Literary and Historical Society UCD remembering their fallen auditor
Dublin Four Courts Plaque inscribed: In Memory of the Irish Barristers who fell in the Great War 1914-1918. The list includes the name of Thomas Kettle
House of Commons London panel commemoration Thomas M. Kettle killedAcademics born in the 1880s 6
About this person
Thomas Michael Kettle was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, war poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Tyrone from 1906 to 1910 at Westminster. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, then on the outbreak of World War I in 1914 enlisted for service in the British Army, with which he was killed in action on the Western Front in the autumn of 1916. He was a much admired old comrade of James Joyce, who considered him to be his best friend in Ireland, as well as the likes of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Oliver St. John Gogarty and Robert Wilson Lynd.
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