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Henry Broderick

Irish politician

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5718654 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Henry Broderick was an Irish Labour Party politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Longford–Westmeath constituency at the June 1927 general election.

He was re-elected at the September 1927 general election but lost his seat at the 1932 general election. He stood unsuccessfully at the 1933, 1937 and 1943 general elections.

Editorial summary

“Henry Broderick” enters the record as irish politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Henry, Broderick and Irish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1927, 1932, 1933, 1937—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Henry, Broderick and Irish.
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Why this record matters

“Henry Broderick” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Henry, Broderick and Irish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5718654. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1927, 1932, 1933 and 1937.

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This entry incorporates text from “Henry Broderick” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.