Joseph MacBride

Joseph MacBride (1860 – 1 January 1938) was an Irish Sinn Féin and later Cumann na nGaedheal politician.

His brother Major John MacBride fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and was executed by the British authorities.

[1] In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though MacBride did not attend as he was in prison.

He was again re-elected unopposed at the 1922 general election as a member of Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin.

[3] His nephew Seán MacBride was subsequently Chief of Staff of the IRA and a founder of Clann na Poblachta and a government minister.