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BRINGING HOME TURF Maurice MacGonigal PRHA HRA HRSA (1900-1979)
Signature: signed lower right Medium: oil on board Dimensions: 19½ x 23¼in. (49.53 x 59.06cm) Provenance: Collection of Tomás Ó Deirg (Thomas Derrig); Thence by descent; Whyte's, 15 March 2010, lot 113; Private collection Exhibited: Literature: Derrig was born on 26 November 1897, in County Mayo. He was educated locally and at University College Galway. During his time in college he organised a corps of the Irish Volunteers. After the 1916 E... Easter Rising he was arrested and imprisoned. After his release he graduated from college and became headmaster in a technical college in Mayo. During the Irish War of Independence Derrig was interned at the Curragh Camp. While there he was elected a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for Mayo North and West. His comrade in arms, Maurice MacGonigal was interned in Ballykinlar Camp. Derrig took the republican side during the Irish Civil War. He was later captured by the Irish Free State army. While in custody of the Criminal Investigation Department he was severely injured, having an eye shot out by CID detectives. At the June 1927 general election he was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow–Kilkenny. In Éamon de Valera's first government in 1932 O Deirg was appointed Minister for Education. From 1939 to 1943 he served as Minister for Lands. He was re-appointed to Education in 1943 until 1948. Between 1951 and 1954 he became Minister for Lands again. He died on 19 November 1956. FIGURATIV more