Máirín Quill

Máirín Quill (15 September 1936 – 18 December 2025) was an Irish politician. She served as a senator from 1997 to 2002, after being nominated by the Taoiseach, and was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency from 1987 to 1997.

Life and career Quill was born on a farm in Kilgarvan, County Kerry, in 1936. A schoolteacher, she qualified as a primary school teacher from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick; she followed her teaching diploma by studying by night at University College Cork for a degree in English and history, and then a Higher Diploma in Education. She taught English and history at St Vincent's Secondary School in Cork City. and was one of 14 Progressive Democrats TDs resulting from that party's first general election.

Quill retained her seat in two successive general elections, but lost it at the 1997 general election.