T. V. Honan

Thomas Vincent Honan[1] (20 October 1878 – 21 October 1954), known as T. V. Honan, was a Sinn Féin activist and later a Fianna Fáil politician in Ireland who served as a senator for 20 years.

[2] He was a shopkeeper who owned a licensed premises in O'Connell Square in Ennis.

[3] His home and premises were shelled and burned by irregular British Army Troops in 1921.

[4] He was elected in 1934 to Seanad Éireann (nominated by de Valera), for the standard nine-year term which applied under the Constitution of the Irish Free State, but his term was cut short when the Free State Seanad was abolished in May 1936.

[6] He died in 1954 and de Valera came to Ennis to lead the funeral procession.

Éamon de Valera addressing crowd outside Ennis Courthouse, with T.V. Honan on his left.