James Larkin, Jnr

For other people named James Larkin, see James Larkin (disambiguation).

James Larkin, Jnr (1904 – 18 February 1969) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official. He first stood for election as an Irish Worker League candidate at the September 1927 general election for the Dublin County constituency but was unsuccessful. His father, James Larkin, was a successful candidate for the Dublin North constituency at the same general election. Larkin, Jnr was one of two candidates for the Revolutionary Workers' Groups in the 1930 newly reformed Dublin City Council elections, and he was elected. Larkin, Jnr was also an unsuccessful independent candidate at the 1932 general election for the Dublin South constituency. On the foundation of the Communist Party of Ireland in 1933, Larkin became its chairman.

He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency at the 1943 general election, where he sat in the same Dáil as his father. He was re-elected at the 1944 general election for the same constituency. At the 1948 general election, he moved to the Dublin South–Central constituency and was re-elected at the 1951 and 1954 general elections. He did not contest the 1957 general election.

See also

• Families in the Oireachtas

References

Political offices
Preceded by James Larkin	General Secretary of the Workers' Union of Ireland 1947–1969	Succeeded by Denis Larkin
Preceded by Louie Bennett	President of the Irish Trade Union Congress 1949	Succeeded by Sam Kyle
Preceded by Helen Chenevix	President of the Irish Trade Union Congress 1952	Succeeded by Con Connolly
Preceded by John Conroy	President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions 1960	Succeeded by Norman Kennedy