sentences:  Leamy was educated at the University High School, Waterford and at the Jesuits' Tullabeg College, Co. Offaly.Called to the Irish Bar in 1885, Leamy was in 1880 elected as a Parnellite Home Ruler to one of the two seats for Waterford City.When representation at Waterford was reduced to one seat at the 1885 election, he stood down but was elected unopposed at Cork North East in 1885 and again in 1886.