Members_of_the_5th_Seanad
5th Seanad
Members of the Seanad from 1944 to 1948
The 5th Seanad was in office from 1944 to 1948. An election to Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 1944 general election to the 12th Dáil. The senators served until the close of poll for the 6th Seanad in 1948.
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Legislative body | Seanad Éireann | ||||
Jurisdiction | Ireland | ||||
Meeting place | Leinster House | ||||
Term | 18 August 1944 – 12 March 1948 | ||||
Government | 4th Government of Ireland | ||||
Members | 60 | ||||
Cathaoirleach | Seán Goulding (FF) | ||||
Leas-Chathaoirleach | Timothy O'Donovan (FG) | ||||
Leader of the Seanad | William Quirke (FF) |
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There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad: 43 were elected on five vocational panels, 6 were elected from two university constituencies and 11 were nominated by the Taoiseach.[1]
The following table shows the composition by party when the 5th Seanad first met on 18 August 1944.
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Vocational panels | NUI | DU | Nominated | Total | ||||||
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Fianna Fáil | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 22 | ||
Fine Gael | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||
Labour Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | ||
Clann na Talmhan | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
Independent | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 18 | ||
Total | 7 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 60 |
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- Note: The entries for Senators who were elected or appointed to fill vacancies are shown in italics
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- "Mr. James Parkinson". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
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- "Mr. David Madden". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
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- "Mr. Frederick Hawkins". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- "Mr. John Thomas Keane". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- "Mr. Thomas Kennedy". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- "Mr. Joseph Warwick Bigger". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- "Mr. Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill Moore". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- "Professor William Magennis". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
- "Mr. Pádraic Ó Máille". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- "Mr. Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
- "Mr. Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
- "Official Report (Seanad Éireann), Volume 33: New Senator Takes His Seat". Houses of the Oireachtas. 13 November 1946. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
- "5th Seanad". Oireachtas Debates.