Denis Cullen
Teachta Dála
In office
June 1927 – September 1927
ConstituencyDublin North
Personal details
Born(1886-08-19)19 August 1886
Donabate, County Dublin, Ireland
Died26 November 1971(1971-11-26) (aged 85)
Dublin, Ireland
Political partyLabour Party
SpouseMary Cullen
Children1

Denis Cullen (19 August 1886 – 26 November 1971) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official.[1]

A baker by trade, during the 1910s he emerged as a leading figure in the Dublin branch of the Irish Bakers' National Amalgamated Union. At the 1918 national convention – at which the union's name was changed to the Irish Bakers, Confectioners, and Allied Workers Amalgamated Union – Cullen was elected national general secretary, commencing a twenty-five-year tenure (1918–1943), during which he was chief negotiator for both the national union and Dublin branch. He was also prominent in the leadership of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC), serving almost continually on the national executive (1920–1939, 1940–1943), as treasurer (1929–1930), and for two terms as president (1925–1926, 1930–1931).[1]

In 1925 the Labour Party identified high taxation as a government weakness and decided to contest the Dublin North and Dublin South by-elections. Cullen, as general secretary of the Irish Bakers, Confectioners and Allied Workers Amalgamated Union, was candidate in Dublin North with Thomas Lawlor, Irish Municipal Employees Union, in Dublin South.[2] Neither of them were elected.[3]

He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North constituency at the June 1927 general election.[4] He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election having only served 3 months as a TD.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b White, Lawrence William. "Cullen, Denis". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  2. ^ Taxation In Irish Free State, The Times, 19 January 1925.
  3. ^ a b "Denis Cullen". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 11 November 2008.
  4. ^ "Denis Cullen". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 11 November 2008.
Trade union offices Preceded byRobert Wilson General Secretary of the Irish Bakers, Confectioners and Allied Workers Amalgamated Union 1920s–1942 Succeeded byJohn Swift Preceded byWilliam O'Brien President of the Irish Trades Union Congress 1926 Succeeded byJ. T. O'Farrell Preceded byWilliam O'Brien Treasurer of the Irish Trade Union Congress 1930 Succeeded byLuke Duffy Preceded byThomas J. O'Connell President of the Irish Trade Union Congress 1931 Succeeded byLouie Bennett
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