About Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll
Lived 1878 – 1945 (aged 66–67). Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll was an Irish politician and teacher.
Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll (18 August 1876 – 17 June 1945) was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North constituency from 1923 to 1933.
Early life Margaret Mary Collins was born in Woodfield, Clonakilty, County Cork, on 18 August 1876. The eldest of three daughters and five sons of Michael Collins, a farmer, and Mary Anne O'Brien. A primary-school teacher, for many years she was the principal of Lisavaird girls' national school in Clonakilty, and also taught in Dublin. becoming her party's first woman TD. In 1926, she was elected vice-president of the party. She was the only woman to serve as a member of the Dáil between September 1927 and February 1932.
Family She married Patrick O'Driscoll on 8 September 1901 at Rosscarbery's Roman Catholic chapel in County Cork. The couple had 14 children: five sons and nine daughters.
Actress Dervla Kirwan is a great-granddaughter of the O'Driscolls.
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Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll died on 17 June 1945 in Cabra, Dublin.
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