James Francis Hogan MP

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 (29 December 1855 – 9 November 1924) was an Irish

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 history professor at University College Cork, author and Member of Parliament for Mid Tipperary

Mid Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency)

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 between 1893–1900.

Biography

Born in County Tipperary

County Tipperary

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 in 1855, to Rody and Mary Hogan, he had one sister, Margaret. He emigrated to Melbourne

Melbourne

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 in 1856 and lived in Geelong, attending St. Mary's Catholic School there before a year at St Patrick's College, Melbourne. He graduated and began to teach in 1872. He began writing in local newspapers on Catholic topics, before later editing the Victorian Review. Joining he Victorian Catholic Young Men's Society in 1884 he admired the legacy of Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell (6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847; often referred to as The Liberator, or The Emancipator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century...

 and campaigned to erect a memorial to him. He published works on the Irish colonisation of Australia

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, including The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History and The Irish In Australian in the late 1890s.

He then returned to England, and in 1893 was elected unopposed to the House of Commons as MP for Mid Tipperary. He served as secretary of the Colonial Party under Sir Charles Dilke. Following retirement as an MP in 1900, he moved to Ireland to teach at the University of College, Cork. There, he became associated with the Blueshirt movement, advocating a Christian democracy which clashed with the more right-wing aims of their leader Eoin O'Duffy

Eoin O'Duffy

Eoin O'Duffy was in succession a Teachta Dála , the Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army , the second Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, leader of the Army Comrades Association and then the first leader of Fine Gael , before leading the Irish Brigade to fight for Francisco Franco during...

. He remained unmarried at his death, and was survived by his sister.