Moosajee Bhamjee
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Moosajee Bhamjee | |
|---|---|
| Teachta Dála | |
| In office November 1992 – June 1997 | |
| Constituency | Clare |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 December 1947 Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa |
| Party | Labour Party |
| Spouse |
Claire Bhamjee (m. 1975) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Royal College of Surgeons |
Moosajee Bhamjee (born 4 December 1947) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Clare constituency from 1992 to 1997.[1] Bhamjee was Ireland's first Muslim TD.[2]
Bhamjee was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, in 1947. His father emigrated from India in 1906 and had set up a hardware shop there. His father died in 1964, so it was decided that one of the sons would take over the shop while another would go for further education. Bhamjee travelled to Dublin in 1965, where he studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Bhamjee's two other brothers also travelled to Dublin around the same time to study medicine. After he received his degree, Bhamjee returned to South Africa, where he began working as a general practitioner. He returned to Ireland in 1975 and married a woman he first met when studying in Dublin. They moved to Galway and later to Cork, where he trained as a psychiatrist. In 1984, Bhamjee started a permanent post at Our Lady's Hospital in Ennis, County Clare, less than 20 miles from his wife's home-place of Cooraclare.