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T.M. Healy, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Lavery; in the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
T.M. Healy, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Lavery; in the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.

T.M. Healy

Irish politician
Also known as: Tim Healy, Timothy Michael Healy
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T.M. Healy (born May 17, 1855, Bantry, County Cork, Ire.—died March 26, 1931, Dublin) was a leader in the campaigns for Irish Home Rule and for agrarian reform, who served as the first governor-general of the Irish Free State. Working in England first as a railway clerk and then from 1878 in London as parliamentary correspondent of the Nation, Healy took part in Irish politics and was associated with Charles Stewart Parnell, the chief Irish...

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