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List Of Female Members Of Seanad Éireann
This is a list of women Senators who have been elected or appointed to Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas, the bicameral parliament of Ireland. Women in Seanad Éireann Timeline 1922 to 2020 ImageSize = width:950 height:auto barincrement:16 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:30 right:250 left:20 AlignBars = early DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:06/12/1922 till:2025 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1925 Legend = left:40 top:130 columns:2 columnwidth:140 Colors = id:canvas value:rgb(0.99,0.99,0.99) id:CNAG value:rgb(0.529,0.808,0.98) legend:Cumann_na_nGaedheal id:FF value:rgb(0.40,0.733,0.40) legend:Fianna_Fáil id:FG value:rgb(0.4,0.6,1) legend:Fine_Gael id:GREEN value:rgb(0.6,0.8,0.2) legend:Green id:LAB value:rgb(0.8,0,0) legend:Labour id:PD value:rgb(0.2,0.2,0.8) legend:Progressive_Democrats id:SD value:rgb(0.46,0.18,0.55) legend:Social_Democrats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the elder" or "old man") and therefore considered wiser and more experienced members of the society or ruling class. However the Roman Senate was not the ancestor or predecessor of modern parliamentarism in any sense, because the Roman senate was not a de jure legislative body. Many countries have an assembly named a ''senate'', composed of ''senators'' who may be elected, appointed, have inherited the title, or gained membership by other methods, depending on the country. Modern senates typically serve to provide a chamber of "sober second thought" to consider legislation passed by a lower house, whose members are usually elected. Most senates have asymmetrical duties and powers compared with their respective lower house meaning they have sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Costello
Eileen (Ellen) Costello (; ; 27 June 1870 – 4 March 1962) was an English-born Irish politician, writer, teacher and folklorist. Family She was born Edith Drury on 27 June 1870 in St Pancras workhouse in London. Some accounts state her father, who worked as an attendant at the workhouse, was Michael Drury, a native of County Limerick, and her mother Agnes (Hopton) was Welsh, while others claim that her father was Welsh and her mother was from Limerick. It is likely that a charitable society assisted with her education. Edith Drury became a teacher at St Michael's Church of England school, Buckingham Palace Road, London. She was a member of the various Irish organisations in London and became a member of the Gaelic League when it formed. It was there she learned Irish. A member of the committee, she was a representative on behalf of the London Branch at the Ardfheis in May 1902. She began collecting Irish language songs in London (she first collected "Neillí Bhán" on a train ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit Ahern
Catherine Ita Ahern (; 13 January 1915 – 27 December 2007) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry North constituency from 1977 to 1981 and a Senator from 1964 to 1977. Ahern was the first woman to hold several political offices, such as first woman to chair Kerry County Council. At the 1977 general election she was one of only three women elected to the 21st Dáil. A member of Fianna Fáil, during the 1970s and 1980s Ahern exemplified the convergence of Irish nationalism and social conservatism that was growing in the party at the time, supporting the functional use of the Irish language while opposing contraception, divorce, annulment and women with children working outside the home. In the 1979 Fianna Fáil leadership election, she supported the failed attempt by George Colley and thereafter fell afoul of his successful rival Charles Haughey, who prevented her from returning to the Seanad by favouring others. Starved of polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Connolly O'Brien
Nora Connolly O'Brien (14 November 1892 – 17 June 1981) was an Irish politician, activist and writer. She was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1957 to 1969. Early life Nora Connolly was the daughter of Irish republicanism, Irish republican and socialist leader James Connolly and his wife Lillie Connolly (). She was born in Edinburgh, one of seven children. She moved with her family to Dublin when she was three years old. Her formal education in Dublin extended to weekly Gaelic League classes to learn the Irish language. Otherwise, her mother, a former nursery maid, taught her how to read by the age of three and how to write, and arithmetic. The family moved to Troy, New York, when she was nine years old for her father to work at an insurance company. That work fell through, at which time he became increasingly political, prompting the family's eventual return to Ireland, this time to Belfast in 1910, with Nora going ahead a year earlier. After her father's execution, the survi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
