Patrick Guiney

Patrick Guiney (16 March 1867 – 12 Oct 1913) was an Irish Nationalist politician, agrarian agitator and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Born in Newmarket, County Cork, he was the eldest son of Timothy Guiney, a shopkeeper and later clerk of Kanturk poor law union, and Ellen Carver.

[2] He served three terms of imprisonment for activity in the Land War and later Plan of Campaign movement during the 1880s under the Coercion Act.

His brother John Guiney, a solicitor in Kanturk, was returned unopposed for his seat in the resulting by-election.

Patrick and John were uncles of Philip Burton, Fine Gael TD for Cork North-East from 1961 to 1969, and member of the Seanad from 1973 to 1977.

Headstone in Clonfert Cemetery, Newmarket, County Cork, Ireland.
All-for-Ireland League group portrait of five of its Members of Parliament , in the " Cork Free Press ", 30 July 1910.
These are: Patrick Guiney ( North Cork ), James Gilhooly ( West Cork ), Maurice Healy ( North-east Cork ), D. D. Sheehan ( Mid Cork ), and Eugene Crean ( South-east Cork ).