Patrick Little
| Patrick Little | |
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| Minister for Posts and Telegraphs | |
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In office 8 September 1939 – 18 February 1948 |
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| Taoiseach | Éamon de Valera |
| Preceded by | Thomas Derrig |
| Succeeded by | James Everett |
| Government Chief Whip | |
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In office 8 February 1933 – 26 September 1939 |
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| Taoiseach | Éamon de Valera |
| Preceded by | Gerald Boland |
| Succeeded by | Paddy Smith |
| Teachta Dála | |
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In office 23 June 1927 – 24 April 1954 |
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| Constituency | Waterford |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 June 1884 Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 16 May 1963 (aged 78) Dublin, Ireland |
| Political party | Fianna Fáil |
| Occupation | Solicitor, journalist |
Patrick John "P. J." Little (17 June 1884 – 16 May 1963) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. A founder-member of the party, he served in a number of cabinet positions, most notably as the country's longest-serving Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.
Born in Dundrum, County Dublin, Little was the son of Philip Francis Little and Mary Jane Holdright. Both his parents were Canadian natives, while his father had served as the first Premier of Newfoundland before settling in Ireland. Here he became involved in the Irish Home Rule Movement.
Little was educated at Clongowes Wood College, before later attending University College Dublin. Here he studied law and qualified as a solicitor in 1914.
Little was engaged in the independence struggle from an early stage. Following the Easter Rising in 1916, he formed, together with Stephen O'Mara, the Irish Nation League, who while being opposed to the Irish Parliamentary Party and supportive of abstentionism, were wary of the militarism of the Irish Volunteers. In 1918 the Volunteers, the Irish Nation League, and Count Plunkett's followers, the Liberty Clubs agreed to merge under the Sinn Féin banner with Éamon de Valera as President to fight the 1918 general election on an abstentionist platform.
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