Oliver J. Flanagan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish politician
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Place of Birth: County Laois, Leinster, Ireland
About Oliver J. Flanagan
- Oliver James Flanagan (22 May 1920 – 26 April 1987) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1976 to 1977, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence from 1975 to 1976 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture from 1954 to 1957.
- He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Laois-Offaly constituency from 1943 to 1987.
- He was Father of the Dáil from 1977 to 1987.He was elected to the Dáil fourteen times between 1943 and 1982, topping the poll on almost every occasion.
- He was Father of the Dáil from 1977 until his retirement in 1987, and he remains one of the longest-serving members in the history of the Dáil. Flanagan was a social conservative, who famously claimed that "there was no sex in Ireland before television".
- An anti-semite and anti-Mason he used his maiden speech in the Dáil, on 9 July 1943, to urge the government to emulate the Nazis and "rout the Jews out of this country..
- where the bees are there is honey, and where the Jews are there is money" and called for the banning of the Freemasons.Nonetheless, he was consistently popular in his own constituency, largely because of the attention he paid to individual voters' petitions and concerns.
- He has been described as "one of the cutest of cute hoors in the history of the Dáil".
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