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{{Short description|Irish politician (1913–1965}}
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| office        = [[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]
| term_start    = 14 August 1951
| term_end      = 22 May 1957
| constituency  = [[Agricultural Panel]]
| office1       = [[Teachta Dála]]
| term_start1   = [[1945 Mayo South by-election|December 1945]]
| term_end1     = [[1951 Irish general election|May 1951]]
| constituency1 = [[Mayo South (Dáil constituency)|Mayo South]]
| nationality   = [[Irish people|Irish]] 
| party         = [[Clann na Talmhan]]
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| birth_place   = [[County Mayo]], Ireland
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'''Bernard Commons''' (15 May 1913 – 19 April 1965) was an Irish politician. A farmer by profession, he was an unsuccessful candidate at the [[1943 Irish general election|1943]] and [[1944 Irish general election|1944]] general elections. He was elected to [[Dáil Éireann]] at the [[1945 Mayo South by-election|Mayo South by-election]] on 4 December 1945 as a [[Clann na Talmhan]] [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Mayo South (Dáil constituency)|Mayo South]] constituency.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Bernard-Commons.D.1945-12-04/|title=Bernard Commons|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=8 April 2009}}</ref> The by-election was caused by the appointment of [[Micheál Clery]] of [[Fianna Fáil]] as County Registrar of Dublin.

He was re-elected at the [[1948 Irish general election|1948 general election]] but lost his seat at the [[1951 Irish general election|1951 general election]].<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2105|title=Bernard Commons|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=8 April 2009}}</ref> He was subsequently elected to [[7th Seanad]] by the [[Agricultural Panel]]. He stood unsuccessfully at the [[1954 Irish general election|1954 general election]] but was elected to the [[8th Seanad]]. He was defeated at the 1957 Seanad election.<ref name=elecs_irl/>

In the early 1940s, Commons was imprisoned for one month in [[Sligo Gaol|Sligo Prison]] for his part in the Mayo land agitation, after which he won a Dáil seat.<ref name=IT_20010117>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0117/01011700043.html|title=TDs who have seen the inside of a cell|author=Colman Cassidy|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=17 January 2001|access-date=13 January 2008}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of members of the Oireachtas imprisoned since 1923]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Mayo South (Dáil constituency)/TDs}}
{{Members of the 7th Seanad}}
{{Members of the 8th Seanad}}

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[[Category:Clann na Talmhan senators]]
[[Category:Members of the 12th Dáil]]
[[Category:Members of the 13th Dáil]]
[[Category:Members of the 7th Seanad]]
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[[Category:Politicians from County Mayo]]
[[Category:20th-century Irish farmers]]
[[Category:Agricultural Panel senators]]