Domhnall Ua Buachalla
| Domhnall Ua Buachalla | |
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Domhnall Ua Buachalla in 1926
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| 3rd Governor-General of the Irish Free State | |
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In office 27 November 1932 – 11 December 1936 |
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| Monarch |
George V Edward VIII |
| Preceded by | James McNeill |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
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| Born |
5 February 1866 County Kildare, Ireland |
| Died | 30 October 1963 (aged 97) County Dublin, Ireland |
| Profession | Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Domhnall Ua Buachalla (pronounced [d̪ˠɔwn̪ˠal̪ˠ uə bˠuəxal̪ˠa]; English: Daniel Richard (Donal) Buckley; 5 February 1866 – 30 October 1963) was an Irish politician and member of the First Dáil who served as third and final Governor-General of the Irish Free State and later served as a member of the Council of State.
Ua Buachalla was from Maynooth in County Kildare and ran a combined grocery, bicycle shop and pub in the town. He was an Irish language activist and member of Conradh na Gaeilge. In 1907, he was arrested and had his groceries seized when he refused to pay a fine for having his grocery wagon painted with Domhnall Ua Buachalla (his name in the Irish language), as British law required grocery wagons to be registered only in the English language.
He was a member of the Irish Volunteers and on the outbreak of the 1916 Easter Rising he walked the 26 kilometres to Dublin to fight for Irish independence. He was imprisoned in the mass arrests and deportations that followed, and released in 1917. Like many Rising survivors, he joined Sinn Féin, a small separatist party that was wrongly blamed by the British government for the Easter Rising. In the aftermath of the Rising, survivors led by Éamon de Valera took over the party in the struggle for the establishment of an Irish republic. Ua Buachalla was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for Kildare North at the 1918 general election. He served in the First Dáil (1918–1921), and was re-elected to the Second Dáil in 1921 as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Kildare–Wicklow. He sided with de Valera and opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty. He fought in the Four Courts in the Civil War. Imprisoned in Dundalk jail, he was released by the Anti-Treaty troops in August 1922. He lost his seat at the 1922 general election, and was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1923 general election.
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