Jeremiah McVeagh was an Irish

Irish people

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 nationalist

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 politician and Member of Parliament

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 (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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He was first elected as the Irish Parliamentary Party

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 MP for the South Down

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 constituency at the 5 February 1902 by-election, and was again re-elected at the Irish general election, 1918 when he served until 1922 as member of the Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)

Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)

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In 1913 he presented the Jeremiah MacVeagh Cup to the Down County GAA

Gaelic Athletic Association

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Board. The Cup has been presented to the winners of the annual Down Senior Hurling Championship ever since.

External links

• The Letters of Arnold Stephenson Rowntree to Mary Katherine Rowntree by Arnold Stephenson Rowntree, Ian Packer, Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain), p. 29