Identity:

Timothy ('Tim') Michael Healy, MP (1880-1918), KC, was a journalist and Irish Nationalist politician.

Life:

Healy started his career as a parliamentary correspondent for The Nation newspaper until his election as MP for Wexford in 1880. He became a close associate of Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (which campaigned for land reform and home rule in Ireland). However, Healy and Parnell later became bitterly estranged when Parnell was named in the scandalous O'Shea divorce case of a fellow MP. He soon led the anti-Parnellite wing of the party and Parnell was deposed as leader. He later became Governor-General of the Irish Free State (1922-1928).

Bibliography:

Callanan, F. T.M. Healy: The Rise and Fall of Parnell and the Establishment of the Irish Free State, Cork University Press: 1996.