sentences:  Politically, Brady was described by Patrick Maume (1999) as a conservative who took a pro-employer stance in the 1913 Dublin strike led by James Larkin.After the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Brady served as a member of the advisory committee set up to frame the new courts system and Free State judiciary, resulting in the Courts of Justice Act 1924.On 26 January 1927 he was elected in a by-election to a vacancy in the Senate (Seanad Éireann), but was defeated at the regular election of December 1928.