Eugene O'Sullivan (1879 – 19 May 1942)[1] was an Irish nationalist politician and farmer, who was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for East Kerry in January 1910, but was unseated on petition shortly afterwards.
[3] However, at the next election, in January 1910, O'Sullivan stood as an independent nationalist, and won the seat with a majority 489 votes (10% of the poll).
[4] Despite being elected as an independent, O'Sullivan chose to immediately join the Irish Parliamentary Party, and took his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The following year, Killarney Urban District Council elected O'Sullivan as its chairman, by right of which under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 he was appointed a justice of the peace.
The prompted Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo to complain in the House of Lords that someone removed as MP was unfit to be a justice of the peace.