abstract:Liam Kelly (29 September 1922 – 7 June 2011) was an Irish republican, who was elected both to House of Commons of Northern Ireland (1953–1958) (as an abstentionist) and as a member of Seanad Éireann (1954–1957) (which he did attend). He was also a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and after his expulsion from that organisation in 1951 of a splinter group Saor Uladh.