David Sheehy

David Sheehy (1844 – 17 December 1932) was an Irish nationalist politician. He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1900 and from 1903 to 1918, taking his seat as a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Born in Limerick, he was a student for the priesthood at the Irish College in Paris, but left and made a runaway match with a convent schoolgirl, Bessie McCoy, who eloped with him. In his youth he was a member of the IRB and was active in the Land League. He was imprisoned on six occasions for his part in the Land War.

At the 1885 general election he was elected unopposed as MP for South Galway and held that seat until the 1900 general election. His re-election in Galway was unopposed in 1886 and 1895. but at the 1892 general election, when the Irish Party split over the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell and Sheehy joined the anti-Parnellite majority, he was opposed by a Parnellite candidate, whom he defeated with a majority of nearly two to one. In the same election he stood in Waterford City, but failed to unseat the Parnellite John Redmond.

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