Thom's Irish Who's Who/O'Loingsigh, Fionan

O'LOINGSIGH, Fionan, B.A., 1913; H.Dip.Ed., 1914 (N.U.I.). Educ: St. Brendan's, Killarney; Rockwell College, and Blackrock: assistant Nat. Teacher, St. Michan's, Halston Street, Dublin, 1912 to Easter, 1916. Commanded F. Co. 1st Bat. in North King Street and Church Street during the Easter Rising. Sentenced to death; commuted to 10 years' penal servitude; elected T.D. for S. Kerry in Dec, 1918, unopposed; re-elected May, 1921, for the proportional rep. area of Kerry and W. Limerick; Secretary with Mr. Erskine Childers to the Irish Delegation of Plenipotentiaries. One of the eight members of the Provisional Government, and Minister of Education under that Government.