He was a minor playwright and poet and also sat as a member of the Republic of Ireland Senate between 1946 and 1948.
On 13 March 2012, he told Seanad Éireann Tallafornia was as a "drink-sodden programme" which encourages its participants to "behave licentiously and compete to bring people home to bed them".
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12 May - Nationalist Senators and MPs in Northern Ireland ask the government of the Republic to give Northern-elected representatives seats in the Dáil and Seanad.
Another native of Tassan, Clontibret was Senator John Brennan, a Fianna Fáil member of Seanad Éireann from 1960 until 1977 and a member of Monaghan Co Council from 1942 until 1974.
In 1982, Seamus Mallon was disqualified from taking his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly as he was a member of Seanad Éireann, the upper chamber of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, at the time of his election.
Fine Gael won 19 seats in Seanad Éireann following the 2011 election, a gain of four from the previous election in 2007.
Two of its former presidents, Kit Ahern and Peggy Farrell, were nominated by the Taoiseach to serve in Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the Irish parliament).
Kathleen Ryan was one of the eight children of Séamus Ryan, a member of Seanad Éireann and his wife Agnes Ryan née Harding who came from Kilfeacle and Solohead respectively in County Tipperary and who were Republican activists during the Irish War of Independence.
He was elected to the Irish Free State Seanad Éireann at a by-election on 20 June 1929 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice.
On 12 July 2010, the High Court granted leave to Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty for a judicial review into why a by-election was not being held.
W.T.'s grandson, also called Liam also served as a TD and as Senator and his granddaughter Louise Cosgrave served as a Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Councillor from 1999 to 2009.
Henry Morgan Dockrell (died 1955), Irish Cumann na nGaedhael and Fine Gael politician who was elected to both Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann
John Costelloe, Irish politician, member of Seanad Éireann from 1963–1965