Education
He attended the University of Glasgow and the Royal University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he obtained a medical degree.
He attended the University of Glasgow and the Royal University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he obtained a medical degree.
Crowley received his early education in his home town of Cork. He practised medicine for 33 years. He was elected as a Sinn Féin Member of Parliament for the Mayo North constituency at the 1918 general election.
In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann.
He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Mayo North and West constituency at the 1921 elections. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against lieutenant
He was re-elected unopposed for the same constituency at the 1922 general election, this time as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin Territorial Decoration, and he did not take his seat in the Dáil. He was elected as a Republican Territorial Decoration for Mayo North constituency at the 1923 general election and once again he did not take his seat.
He did not contest the June 1927 general election.
Crowley died in 1934 at the age of 64. His burial mass was at Saint Brigid"s CHurch in Ballycastle and presided over by the Most Review Doctor Naughton, Bishop of Killala.
In attendance at his funeral were 1,000 Old Ireland Republican Army members, including P. J. Ruttledge, the Minister for Justice, and many other TDs.
31st United Kingdom Parliament.