At the
general election in August 1847 he was elected as one of the two
Repeal Association MPs for
Cork City. defeating the sitting Repeal MP
Alexander McCarthy and taking his seat in the
House of Commons of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Later that year, he published ''"The life and times of Daniel O'Connell"'', prefacing the book with an address "To The people of Ireland" in which he described
O'Connell as "the greatest man that this, or any other country, ever produced". Fagan
resigned from Parliament on 14 April 1851 by appointment as
Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds to become a
Commissioner of Insolvency. He stood again as an independent Whig at the
general election in July 1852, pledged to support to the formation of an Independent Irish Opposition. He was re-elected in
1857 and at the
general election on 6 May 1859, but died ten days later, aged 57. In 1844 Fagan was elected
Mayor of Cork and as an Alderman a
Justice of the Peace (JP) for
County Cork, and was also a
Deputy Lieutenant. ==References==