{{Short description|Irish politician (1900–1973)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | caption = | office = [[Teachta Dála]] | term_start = [[1948 Irish general election|February 1948]] | term_end = [[1965 Irish general election|April 1965]] | constituency = [[Tipperary South (Dáil constituency)|Tipperary South]] | party = [[Fianna Fáil]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1900|7|23|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Cashel, County Tipperary]], Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1973|7|25|1900|7|23|df=y}} | death_place = County Tipperary, Ireland | children = [[Don Davern|Don]], [[Noel Davern|Noel]] | spouse = | education = | alma_mater = | branch = {{ubl|[[Irish Volunteers]]|[[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|Irish Republican Army]]}} | rank = [[Staff captain]] | battles = [[Irish War of Independence]] }} '''Michael J. Davern''' (23 July 1900 – 25 July 1973) was an Irish [[Fianna Fáil]] politician who served as [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Tipperary South (Dáil constituency)|Tipperary South]] constituency from 1948 to 1965.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Michael-J-Davern.D.1948-02-18/|title=Michael Davern|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=16 August 2012}}</ref>
He was born 23 July 1900 in Ballymore, [[Cashel, County Tipperary]], son of Owen Davern, a shopkeeper, who was a member for many years of [[South Tipperary County Council]], and Johanna Davern (née Ryan).<ref name=dib>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/davern-owen-don-bosco-don-a2416#co-subject-A|title=Davern, Michael|work=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|last=White|first=Lawrence William|access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref> After attending national school locally, Michael Davern joined the [[Irish Volunteers]] at the age of 17 along with his brother Patrick. He was arrested for possession of [[gelignite]] and was imprisoned in [[Cork Prison]] and [[Mountjoy Prison]], Dublin, where he went on a 21 day [[hunger strike]]. He served in the [[Irish War of Independence]] with the 3rd Tipperary brigade of the [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|IRA]], attaining the rank of [[Staff captain]]. He suffered wounds during an engagement with [[Black and Tans]] at Ballagh, County Tipperary. Despite [[Anglo-Irish Treaty|anti-Treaty]] sympathies, he took no active part in the [[Irish Civil War]].<ref name=dib/>
He was elected to [[Dáil Éireann]] at the [[1948 Irish general election|1948 general election]], and was re-elected at the [[1951 Irish general election|1951]], [[1954 Irish general election|1954]], [[1957 Irish general election|1957]] and [[1961 Irish general election|1961]] general elections.<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2363|title=Michael Davern|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=16 August 2012}}</ref>
Davern did not contest the [[1965 Irish general election|1965 general election]] and was succeeded by his son [[Don Davern]]. After Don's death in 1968, another son [[Noel Davern]] was elected for Tipperary South at the [[1969 Irish general election|1969 general election]].<ref name=dib/>
For many years he operated a family-owned licensed business, Davern's Bar, on Main Street, Cashel. He died 25 July 1973 in Cashel, and was buried with military honours in St Cormac's cemetery.<ref name=dib/>
==See also== *[[Families in the Oireachtas]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
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