J. P. Farrell

James Patrick Farrell (13 May 1865 – 11 December 1921) was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) from 1895 to 1918, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

[5] An active campaigner on land and tenancy reform, Farrell was arrested and imprisoned for two months in 1889 over a speech deemed to be agitation.

Farrell lost narrowly to the Parnellite candidate, Patrick O'Brien by a margin of only 667 votes to 681.

[6] A vacancy arose immediately in West Cavan, where Edmund Vesey Knox the MP since 1890, was re-elected 1895 but also won a seat in Londonderry City, and chose to sit for the latter.

[4] When the split in the Irish Parliamentary Party was resolved in time for the 1900 general election, Farrell did not seek re-election in Cavan, but stood instead in North Longford, where he was returned unopposed.