{{Short description|Irish politician (1888–1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Peter_Paul_Galligan.jpg | caption = Galligan in May 1916 | office = Teachta Dála | term_start = May 1921 | term_end = June 1922 | constituency = Cavan | term_start1 = December 1918 | term_end1 = May 1921 | constituency1 = Cavan West | birth_name = Peter Paul Galligan | birth_date = {{birth date|1888|6|20|df=y}} | birth_place = Carrigallen, County Leitrim, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1966|12|14|1888|6|20|df=y}} | death_place = | party = Sinn Féin | branch = {{Ubl|Irish Volunteers|Irish Republican Army}} | rank = Commandant | battles = Easter Rising }} '''Paul Galligan'''<ref name="Dail"/> (20 June 1888 – 14 December 1966) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician who would experience over five years in prison as a result of his republican activities during the 1916 Rising in Enniscorthy and the War of Independence in County Cavan.
Peter Paul Galligan was born in Carrigallen, County Leitrim and attended school at St Patrick's College, Cavan.<ref>Bureau of Military History {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219022436/http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/ |date=19 February 2015 }} [http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0170.pdf#page=1 WS Ref #: 170, Witness: Peter Paul Galligan, Officer IV, Wexford, 1916; Member 1st and 2nd Dail]</ref> A member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers, Galligan cycled from Dublin to Wexford during the Easter Rising. He was carrying James Connolly's battle orders to ensure that the volunteers in the area rose to support those in Dublin.
The Volunteers were ordered to destroy rail lines in order to prevent British reinforcements to Dublin from the south. Commandant Galligan and his men occupied Ferns, County Wexford and the surrounding areas.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brennan |first=Robert |author-link= |date=1950 |title=Allegiance |url= |location=Dublin |publisher=Brown and Nolan Ltd. |pages=64, 65. |isbn=}}</ref> With 600 Volunteers in Enniscorthy under the command of Robert Brennan almost all of north Wexford was in rebel hands.<ref>{{cite book |last=Macardle |first=Dorothy |author-link= |date=1965 |title=The Irish Republic |url= |location=New York |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |page=179 |isbn=}}</ref> When the volunteers disbanded he cycled back to County Cavan but was arrested at the family home. After his arrest Galligan was sentenced to death but that sentence was later reduced to five years penal servitude.<ref>{{cite report |author=British Army |author-link= |date=1922 |title=Peter Paul Galligan |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Piece_207-088;_Peter_Paul_Galligan_(1922).pdf&page=2 |publisher=UK National Archives |page=2 |docket= |access-date=17 December 2024 |quote=}}</ref>
He was elected unopposed as the Sinn Féin MP for Cavan West at the 1918 general election.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Peter-Paul-Galligan.D.1919-01-21/|title=Peter Paul Galligan|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=11 April 2009}}</ref> The following month, in January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs who had been elected in the Westminster elections of 1918 refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled in the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though Galligan did not attend as he was in prison.<ref name="Dail">{{cite web|url=http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/DT/D.F.O.191901210004.html|language=Irish|title=Roll call of the first sitting of the First Dáil|work=Dáil Éireann Historical Debates|date=21 January 1919|accessdate=11 April 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119184338/http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/DT/D.F.O.191901210004.html|archivedate=19 November 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He was arrested again in September 1920 <ref>Bureau of Military History [http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0768.pdf#page=1 WS Ref #: 768, Witness: Seamus McDermott, Intelligence Officer IRA, Cavan Town, 1921]</ref> and re-elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan constituency at the 1921 elections. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it. He did not contest the 1922 general election and retired from politics.<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=942|title=Peter Galligan|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=11 April 2009}}</ref>
==Sources== *Robert Brennan (1950), ''Allegiance.''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{cite TIWW |article=Galligan, Peter Paul |page=89 }}
<gallery> file:Piece 207-088; Peter Paul Galligan (1922).pdf|War Office: Army of Ireland: Administrative and Easter Rising Records—Peter Paul Galligan </gallery>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Galligan, Paul}} Category:1888 births Category:1966 deaths Category:Early Sinn Féin TDs Category:Members of the 1st Dáil Category:Members of the 2nd Dáil Category:Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Cavan constituencies (1801–1922) Category:UK MPs 1918–1922 Category:Politicians from County Leitrim Category:People from Carrigallen