Seán Ó Ceallaigh (Clare politician)

{{Short description|Irish Fianna Fáil politician (1896–1994)}}

{{other people|Seán Ó Ceallaigh}}

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| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = July 1959

| term_end = June 1969

| constituency = Clare

| birth_date = {{birth date|1896|4|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = County Clare, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|6|15|1896|4|17|df=y}}

| death_place = County Clare, Ireland

| nationality = Irish

| party = Fianna Fáil

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Seán Ó Ceallaigh (17 April 1896 – 15 June 1994) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Se%C3%A1n-%C3%93-Ceallaigh.D.1959-07-22/|title=Seán Ó Ceallaigh|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=10 September 2012}} He was first elected as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Clare constituency at a by-election on 22 July 1959, succeeding Éamon de Valera who had been elected President of Ireland. He was re-elected at the 1961 general election and at the 1965 general election.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2636|title=Seán Ó Ceallaigh|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=10 September 2012}} He did not contest the 1969 general election.

Ó Ceallaigh taught in the all-Irish Coláiste Uí Chomhraidhe, Carrigaholt, County Clare. His son, Fiachra Ó Ceallaigh, was an Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin.