Joseph Johnston

Joseph Johnston (20 August 1890 – 26 August 1972) was an Irish academic, farmer, writer and politician.

He was born in 1890 in Toomog townland, Castlecaulfield, County Tyrone, to John Johnston, a national school teacher, and Mary Geddis. He came from a Presbyterian family of Ulster-Scots descent.

He was educated at Dungannon Royal School (1902–1906), Trinity College Dublin (1906–1910, BA (Mod) in Classics) and Lincoln College, Oxford (1910–1912).

He supported Home Rule and was the author of Civil War in Ulster (1913) and The Nemesis of Economic Nationalism (1934). He was re-elected to the 2nd and 3rd Seanad but lost his at the 1943 election. He was elected to the 5th Seanad in 1944 and lost his seat at the 1948 election. He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 7th Seanad in 1951 and lost his seat at the 1954 election. His daughter, Maureen Carmody, was a member of the National Executive of the Irish Labour Party for many years, and at one time an elected Labour member of Nenagh Town Council.

Books 1913 – "Civil War in Ulster - Its Objects & Probable Results", Sealy, Byers and Walker, Dublin 1925 – "A Groundwork of Economics" 1934 – "The Nemesis of Economic Nationalism", P.S. King & Son, London 1951 – "Irish Agriculture in Transition", Hodges Figgis / Blackwell, Dublin 1962 – "Why Ireland Needs the Common Market", Mercier Press, Cork 1966 – "Irish Economic Headaches: A Diagnosis", Aisti Eireannachta 1970 – "Bishop Berkeley's Querist in Historical Perspective", Dundalgan Press, Dundalk