Seán Broderick

{{Short description|Irish politician (1890–1953)}}

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| name = Seán Broderick

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| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = July 1937

| term_end = June 1943

| constituency = Galway East

| term_start1 = August 1923

| term_end1 = July 1937

| constituency1 = Galway

| nationality = Irish

| birth_date = {{birth year|1889}}

| birth_place = Prospect Hill, Galway, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and given age|1953|8|20|63}}

| death_place = Athenry, County Galway, Ireland

| party = Fine Gael (from 1937)

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| branch = {{ubl|Irish Republican Army (until 1923)|National Army (1923)}}

| battles = Irish War of Independence

| unit = 4th Battalion, Galway Brigade

| rank = {{ubl|Officer Commanding (IRA)| Captain (National Army)}}

| otherparty = Cumann na nGaedheal (1923–1937)

| resting_place = Athenry Graveyard{{Cite web |title=Athenry Graveyard, Plot No. 380 Section B |url=https://www.irishgraveyards.ie/plot?plotno=380&yardid=48§ion=B |access-date=16 January 2025 |website=irishgravyards.ie}}

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| allegiance = {{ubl|Irish Republic (until 1923)|Irish Free State (1923)}}

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Seán Broderick (1889{{Cite web |title=Seán Broderick |url=http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/docs/files//PDF_Pensions/R1/24SP282SEAN%20BRODERICK/24B97SEANBRODERICK.pdf |access-date=16 January 2025 |website=Irish Military Archives}} – 20 August 1953) was an Irish politician. He was Officer Commanding of the 4th Battalion, Galway Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence.{{cite web|url=http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/11004|title=Seán Broderick and the Black and Tans|work=Galway Advertiser|date=16 April 2009|access-date=22 December 2021}}

Broderick came from Prospect Hill, Galway. In 1919, while an officer of the IRA in Galway, he was arrested by the Black and Tans after one of their number had been shot dead during an altercation at a railway station. He was summarily put against a wall, shot, and left for dead; however, he had only been lightly wounded and managed to escape and go on the run. He survived the war to lead the IRA into Renmore Barracks on the day the British left. He was arrested in November 1920, and interned until October 1921.{{Cite book |url=https://www.galwaydecadeofcommemoration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Centenary-Reflections-on-the-Rising-part-1_1-169.pdf |title=Centenary Reflections on the 1916 Rising: Galway County Perspectives |publisher=Galway County Council |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-9567825-8-8 |editor-last=Mannion |editor-first=Marie |pages=150 |quote=He was arrested in November 1920 and interned until October 1921. He joined the National Army in June and stood in the General Election to Dáil Éireann of August 1923.}} Following the war of Independence, Broderick joined the National Army and retired in October 1923 to take his seat as a Teachta Dála (TD).

He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal TD for the Galway constituency at the 1923 general election.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Se%C3%A1n-Broderick.D.1923-09-19/|title=Seán Broderick|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=4 January 2009}} He was re-elected at each subsequent election until lost his seat at the 1943 general election.{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1284|title=Seán Broderick|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=4 January 2009}} From the 1937 general election onwards, he was elected as a Fine Gael TD for the Galway East constituency.

Broderick died on 20 August 1953, aged 63, in Athenry, County Galway.{{Cite web |date=2 October 1953 |title=Deaths registered in the District of Athenry in the Superintendent Registrar's District of Loughrea in the County of Galway |url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1953/04462/4168926.pdf |access-date=16 January 2025 |website= |publisher=General Register Office |via=Irish Genealogy}}