Máire Mullarney (1 September 1921 – 18 August 2008) was an Irish environmentalist, educationalist and

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advocate. She was one of the founding members of the Irish Green Party in 1981 (then known as the Ecology Party of Ireland). She stood for the party in three Dáil elections in the 1980s and was elected to

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in 1991, a position she kept until 1999. Her political influences included

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, GK Chesterton and Ernst Schumacher, author of the influential Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered, which argued for environmentalism from an economist's perspective. Maire Mullarney also published a book called "Anything school can do you can do better" it was about her raising her children as well as home educating. One of her daughters was Janet Mullarney, artist and sculptor. Her son is Killian Mullarney author and illustrator of Collins Guide to the Birds of Europe.

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Máire Mullarney's electoral history
1921 births 2008 deaths People from Rathfarnham Green Party (Ireland) candidates in Dáil elections Members of Dublin County Council Members of South Dublin County Council Green Party (Ireland) local councillors Activists from South Dublin (county) {{environmentalist-stub