James Larkin Jnr

{{Short description|Irish Labour Party politician and trade unionist (1904–1969)}}

{{other people|James Larkin}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = James Larkin Jnr

| image = Jim_Larkin_Jr.png

| caption =

| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = February 1948

| term_end = March 1957

| constituency = Dublin South-Central

| term_start1 = June 1943

| term_end1 = February 1948

| constituency1 = Dublin South

| party = Labour Party

| otherparty = {{ubl|Communist Party of Ireland|Revolutionary Workers' Groups|Irish Worker League}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1904|8|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = Liverpool, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|02|18|1904|8|20|df=y}}

| death_place = Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

| spouse = Josie Larkin

| children = 4

| father = James Larkin

| relatives = Denis Larkin (brother)

| education = St. Enda's School

}}

James Larkin Jnr (20 August 1904{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341072670_'Greater_son_James_Larkin_Junior_1904-1969' |title=‘Greater son: James Larkin Junior, 1904-1969’ |last=O'Connor |first=Emmet |date=May 2020 |access-date=16 December 2022 }} – 18 February 1969) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official.

He was born in Liverpool, England, the eldest of four sons of James Larkin, trade union leader, and Elizabeth Larkin (née Brown), daughter of a baptist lay preacher from County Down. After the family's move to Dublin in 1909, James was educated at St. Enda's School, Rathfarnham, the only school that would accept the young Larkins owing to the reputation of their father. James endured much hardship as a child during the period of his father's intense union activity, including eviction from the family home in Auburn Street.{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/larkin-james-a4684|title=Larkin, James|work=Dictionary of Irish Biography|last=Ferriter|first=Diarmaid|access-date=13 October 2022}}

He first stood for election as an Irish Worker League candidate at the September 1927 general election for the Dublin County constituency but was unsuccessful. His father, James Larkin, was a successful candidate for the Dublin North constituency at the same general election. The younger Larkin was one of two candidates for the Revolutionary Workers' Groups in the 1930 newly reformed Dublin City Council elections, and he was elected.{{Cite web|url=https://cedarlounge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/cpoi-history.pdf|title=Communist Party of Ireland History}}

He was also an unsuccessful independent candidate at the 1932 general election for the Dublin South constituency. On the foundation of the Communist Party of Ireland in 1933, Larkin became its chairman.

He attended the International Lenin School{{Cite web|url=https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/delegated-to-the-new-world/|title=Delegated to the "New World"|date=6 February 2013}} with Padraic Breslin and Sean Murray.{{cite book|last1=White|first1=Lawrence William|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|location=Cambridge|chapter=Breslin, Padraic|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James}}

He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency at the 1943 general election, where he sat in the same Dáil as his father.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/James-Larkin-Jnr.D.1943-07-01/|title=James Larkin Jnr|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=9 April 2009}} He was re-elected at the 1944 general election for the same constituency. At the 1948 general election, when the constituency was divided, he was elected for the Dublin South-Central constituency and was re-elected at the 1951 and 1954 general elections.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=8516|title=James Larkin, Jnr|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=9 April 2009}} He did not contest the 1957 general election.