Robert Day (Irish politician, born 1884)

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Robert Day

Teachta Dála
In office June 1922 – August 1923
Constituency	Cork Borough

Personal details
Born	(1884-11-22)22 November 1884 Cork, Ireland
Died	1 May 1949(1949-05-01) (aged 64) Cork, Ireland
Political party	Labour Party

Robert Day (22 November 1884 – 1 May 1949)^[1] was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official.

He was born in Cork City to night watchman John Day and Mary Hogan, one of at least six children. He worked as a laundry van man and was married in October 1912 to laundress Christina O'Connell.

He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork Borough constituency at the 1922 general election.^[2] He lost his seat at the 1923 general election.^[3]

He died on 1 May 1949 in Cork.^[4]

References

^ "Civil Records - Birth of ROBERT DAY in 1884" (PDF). IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
^ "Robert Day". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
^ "Robert Day". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
^ "General Registrar's Office". IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 18 September 2017.

External links

"Day, Robert" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 56 – via Wikisource.

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for the Cork Borough constituency

Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)					Deputy (Party)
2nd	1921		Liam de Róiste (SF)	Mary MacSwiney (SF)	Donal O'Callaghan (SF)	J. J. Walsh (SF)	4 seats 1921–1923
3rd	1922		Liam de Róiste (PT-SF)	Mary MacSwiney (AT-SF)	Robert Day (Lab)	J. J. Walsh (PT-SF)	4 seats 1921–1923
4th	1923		Richard Beamish (Ind)	Mary MacSwiney (Rep)	Andrew O'Shaughnessy (Ind)	J. J. Walsh (CnaG)		Alfred O'Rahilly (CnaG)
4th	1924 by-election		Richard Beamish (Ind)	Mary MacSwiney (Rep)	Andrew O'Shaughnessy (Ind)			Michael Egan (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)		John Horgan (NL)	Seán French (FF)	Richard Anthony (Lab)			Barry Egan (CnaG)
6th	1927 (Sep)		W. T. Cosgrave (CnaG)	Seán French (FF)	Richard Anthony (Lab)	Hugo Flinn (FF)		Barry Egan (CnaG)
7th	1932			Thomas Dowdall (FF)	Richard Anthony (Ind)			William Desmond (CnaG)
8th	1933							William Desmond (CnaG)
9th	1937		W. T. Cosgrave (FG)				4 seats 1937–1948
10th	1938				James Hickey (Lab)
11th	1943			Frank Daly (FF)	Richard Anthony (Ind)	Séamus Fitzgerald (FF)
12th	1944		William Dwyer (Ind)			Walter Furlong (FF)
12th	1946 by-election		Patrick McGrath (FF)			Walter Furlong (FF)
13th	1948			Michael Sheehan (Ind)	James Hickey (NLP)	Jack Lynch (FF)		Thomas F. O'Higgins (FG)
14th	1951			Seán McCarthy (FF)	James Hickey (Lab)			Thomas F. O'Higgins (FG)
14th	1954 by-election			Seán McCarthy (FF)	James Hickey (Lab)			Stephen Barrett (FG)
15th	1954			Anthony Barry (FG)	Seán Casey (Lab)
15th	1956 by-election		John Galvin (FF)	Anthony Barry (FG)
16th	1957			Gus Healy (FF)
17th	1961			Anthony Barry (FG)
17th	1964 by-election		Sheila Galvin (FF)	Anthony Barry (FG)
18th	1965		Gus Healy (FF)	Pearse Wyse (FF)
18th	1967 by-election		Gus Healy (FF)	Pearse Wyse (FF)	Seán French (FF)
19th	1969	Constituency abolished. See Cork City North-West and Cork City South-East

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