Career
He was elected on his second attempt, to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Cork Borough constituency at the 1944 general election. He lost his Dáil seat at the 1948 general election, and was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1951 general election. According to his death notice Furlong was in "G" Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Cork Brigade, Old Ireland Republican Army in 1916, and had been interned on Bere Island, released on the signing of the Truce.
