Henry Edward Colley (21 February 1891 – 18 January 1972) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-East constituency from 1944 to 1957.
[2] He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, serving in the GPO garrison during the 1916 Easter Rising; British troops, believing him dead, used his body as a sandbag on their Gloucester Street barricade.
He was imprisoned at Frongoch internment camp, and was released in December 1916; becoming second-in-command to Oscar Traynor in F Company, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade IRA.
[3] Opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, he took the anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and was involved in the planning and organnising of IRA operations against National forces.
[5] Harry Colley died on 18 January 1972 and was buried with full military honours in the republican plot at Glasnevin Cemetery.