Joseph Patrick Nannetti

Joseph Patrick Nannetti (19 March 1851 – 26 April 1915) was an Irish nationalist Home rule politician, trade union leader, and as Irish Parliamentary Party member and Member of Parliament (MP) represented the constituency of College Green, Dublin in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1900 to 1915. He was a city councillor and Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Biography Nannetti was born in Dublin in 1851 as a son of an Italian sculptor and modeller. He was educated at the Baggot Street Convent School and the Christian Brother’s schools in Dublin. He married Mary Egan in 1873. as a United Irish League supported Labour trade unionist, as well as in the 1906 election, the January 1910 and the December 1910 elections

Nannetti had represented an older school of trade unionism, based on skilled workmen and emphasising shared interest between workmen and employer, which was challenged by the rise of Larkinism mass unionism. He was also a member of the Catholic Cemeteries Committee and Trustee of the Royal Liver Friendly Society. He appears as a character in James Joyce's novel, Ulysses.

Nannetti died following a stroke on 26 April 1915.