Thomas Joseph Farrell
Thomas Joseph Farrell was an Irish nationalist politician. He was Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament] for the Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation for South Kerry from 1895 to 1900, representing the county in the House of Commons of [the United Kingdom|United Kingdom House of Commons].
Farrell was elected to the Parliament at a by-election on 5 September 1895. The outgoing MP for South Kerry, Denis Kilbride, had been re-elected in South Kerry at the 1895 [United Kingdom general election in Ireland|general election in July 1895], but had also been elected for North Galway, and chose to sit for that seat. The only other candidate at the by-election was Bantry-born William Martin Murphy, standing on this occasion as an "independent nationalist". Murphy was a former MP for Dublin St Patrick's, and a wealthy businessman who was the principal backer of the "Healyite" newspapers the National Press and the Daily Nation. Farrell won the seat with a large majority, but did not contest the 1900 [United Kingdom general election in Ireland|general election in 1900], when the Irish Parliamentary Party reunited and John [Pius Boland] was returned unopposed as the IPP MP for South Kerry.