He was born near Mountjoy Square , Dublin , to James Hughes , a baker from County Offaly . His mother died of TB when he was six . He attended O'Connell School and spent time at a Dominican seminary in Voiron , France . He taught French in Newbridge College and was a clerk at a firm exporting eggs . He married Josephine Hackett from Milltown , Dublin in 1912 ; they had five children . He was in the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Socialist Republican Party , and with the Irish Citizen Army in Jacob 's during the Easter Rising , subsequently imprisoned until May 1917 . He was acting secretary of the ITGWU while Jim Larkin was in America , but was ousted by William X. O'Brien . He was arrested at Liberty Hall after Bloody Sunday 1920 . He joined the Irish civil service under the 1922 Provisional Government and was the first secretary of Cumann na nGaedheal . He lost narrowly to Seán Lemass in a Dáil by-election in 1924 . From 1925 he worked for 2RN , later Radio Éireann , becoming its director of programming in 1929 . Frank Gallagher took most of his functions in 1935 , leaving Hughes only Irish-language programming . During the Emergency he was transferred to censorship of post
Bloody Sunday 1920
Bloody Sunday (1920)
Seamus Hughes (trade unionist)