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Conway was the son of Edward Conway of Moylough, near Tubbercurry, Company
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Michael Conway
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He was a supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell. From 1865 he was engaged in education. Conway was an active Irish Nationalist and President of the Blackburn, Lancashire, Branch of the Irish National League of Great Britain.
On 28 October 1885 he was selected at Carrick-on-Shannon as Nationalist candidate for the new seat of North Leitrim and in the December 1885 general election by almost 10 to 1 over a Conservative.
He was then returned unopposed in 1886. He appears to have remained resident in Blackburn at least for a time as he was reported as presiding at a Nationalist meeting there on 30 November 1886.
When the Irish Parliamentary Party split in December 1890 over Parnell’s leadership, Conway supported Parnell. He strongly supported Parnell in the week-long meeting of the Party in Committee Room 15 of the House of Commons.
Lyons commented that he had a ‘futile altercation’ with the Anti-Parnellite Thomas Sexton, and he also clashed with Timothy Healy.
At the general election of 1892, Conway did not contest North Leitrim but fought Mid Tipperary as a Parnellite. He did not stand for Parliament again.
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23rd United Kingdom Parliament. 24th United Kingdom Parliament]
A member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for North Leitrim from 1885 to 1892 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
