Edward Filgate (16 September 1915 – 19 January 2017) was an Irish

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politician who served for five years as

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(TD) for the

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constituency. He was first elected to the

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at the 1977 general election. He was re-elected twice, at the

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and the February 1982 general elections. He did not contest the November 1982 general election. He and his wife, Elish, had five children. Elish died in 1989. One of 11 children, he lived in the township of Priorstate, in his native village of

, near

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, next to the site of the house he grew up in. He was the final member of the family to permanently live in the village. He became a

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in September 2015 and died on 19 January 2017, aged 101. He is buried in the graveyard of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Louth.

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