Archie Heron | |
Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | July 1937 |
Term End: | June 1938 |
Constituency: | Dublin North-West |
Party: | Labour Party |
Birth Date: | 29 August 1896 |
Birth Place: | Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland |
Death Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Children: | 2 |
Archibald Heron (29 August 1896 – 10 May 1971) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade unionist.
He was born in Portadown, County Armagh, to a presbyterian family, one of seven children of Samuel Heron, a physician and surgeon, and his wife Bessie (née Beck).[1] He was educated locally before moving to Belfast in 1912.[2] He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and moved to Dublin in 1912 where he became involved in the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union.[3]
He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency at the 1937 general election.[4] He lost his seat at the 1938 general election.[5] He was unsuccessful in both the 1927 general elections in Sligo–Leitrim.
He was a longtime member of Dublin's United Arts Club.[6] He married Ina Connolly, daughter of the socialist republican revolutionary James Connolly. He served as a bodyguard for Michael Collins during the Irish War of Independence.[7]