Hugh Mahon Volume 1 Patriot and Pressman: 1857-1901

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ISBN: 9780992467180

Author	Kildea, Jeff
Pub Date	01/04/2021
Binding	Paperback
Country	IRL
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Quick overview NB - Australian publication originally released in 2017 One of Australia’s most controversial politicians in the early years of the Commonwealth, Hugh Mahon has the distinction of being the only member expelled from the federal parliament. This followed a speech he made in 1920 critical of British rule in Ireland. Born in Co. Offaly in 1857, Hugh and his family emigrated to America in 1869 but returned in 1880 after their American dream failed.

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Volume 1 explores Mahon’s formative years in America, his journalism and political activism in County Wexford and his career as a newspaperman and budding politician in Australia in the years leading up to his election to the first Commonwealth parliament in 1901.

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