James Larkin Jnr

James Larkin Jnr
James Larkin Jnr
Teachta Dála
	In office; February 1948 – March 1957
Constituency	Dublin South-Central
	In office; June 1943 – February 1948
Constituency	Dublin South
Personal details
Born	20 August 1904; Liverpool, England
Died	18 February 1969 (aged 64); Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Political party	Labour Party
Other political; affiliations	Communist Party of Ireland; Revolutionary Workers' Groups; Irish Worker League;
Spouse	Josie Larkin
Children	4
Parent	James Larkin (father);
Relatives	Denis Larkin (brother)
Education	St. Enda's School

James Larkin Jnr (20 August 1904^[1] – 18 February 1969) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official.

He was born in Liverpool, England, the eldest of four sons of James Larkin, trade union leader, and Elizabeth Larkin (née Brown), daughter of a baptist lay preacher from County Down. After the family's move to Dublin in 1909, James was educated at St. Enda's School, Rathfarnham, the only school that would accept the young Larkins owing to the reputation of their father. James endured much hardship as a child during the period of his father's intense union activity, including eviction from the family home in Auburn Street.^[2]

He first stood for election as an Irish Worker League candidate at the September 1927 general election for the Dublin County constituency but was unsuccessful. His father, James Larkin, was a successful candidate for the Dublin North constituency at the same general election. The younger Larkin was one of two candidates for the Revolutionary Workers' Groups in the 1930 newly reformed Dublin City Council elections, and he was elected.^[3] He was also an unsuccessful independent candidate at the 1932 general election for the Dublin South constituency. On the foundation of the Communist Party of Ireland in 1933, Larkin became its chairman.

He attended the International Lenin School^[4] with Padraic Breslin and Sean Murray.^[5]

He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency at the 1943 general election, where he sat in the same Dáil as his father.^[6] He was re-elected at the 1944 general election for the same constituency. At the 1948 general election, when the constituency was divided, he was elected for the Dublin South-Central constituency and was re-elected at the 1951 and 1954 general elections.^[7] He did not contest the 1957 general election.^[7]

References

^ O'Connor, Emmet (May 2020). "'Greater son: James Larkin Junior, 1904-1969'". Retrieved 16 December 2022.
^ Ferriter, Diarmaid. "Larkin, James". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^ "Communist Party of Ireland History" (PDF).
^ "Delegated to the "New World"". 6 February 2013.
^ White, Lawrence William (2009). "Breslin, Padraic". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^ "James Larkin Jnr". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
^ ^a ^b "James Larkin, Jnr". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 9 April 2009.

Trade union offices
Preceded by James Larkin	General Secretary of the Workers' Union of Ireland 1947–1969	Succeeded by Denis Larkin
Preceded by Louie Bennett	President of the Irish Trades Union Congress 1949	Succeeded by Sam Kyle
Preceded by Helen Chenevix	President of the Irish Trades Union Congress 1952	Succeeded by Con Connolly
Preceded by John Conroy	President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions 1960	Succeeded by Norman Kennedy