Margaret Gaj
Restaurant owner
About Margaret Gaj
Lived 1919 – 2011 (aged 91–92).
Margaret Gaj (, 28 January 1919 – 26 June 2011) was a Dublin restaurant owner and political activist.
Life Margaret Dunlop was born in Scotland in 1919 to Irish parents. From an early age, she had an interest in politics and as a teenager she became a member of the Independent Labour Party.
As a pacifist she joined the Red Cross as a nurse during the Second World War. During her time as a nurse she met a Polish soldier, Boleslaw Gaj, and they married. He was working as an electrician with the RAF, having previously served in the French Air Force after escaping from Poland until France too fell to Nazi Germany.
Personal life Boneslaw Gaj died in 1975 and Margaret Gaj retired from the restaurant business in 1980. Upon the closure of "Gaj's", she hung a notice on the door thanking her customers but noting "It's not easy to be a socialist in a capitalist society".
The Gajs had two sons; Wladek and Tadek.
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Restaurant owner
When was Margaret Gaj born?
Margaret Gaj was born in 1919.
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Margaret Gaj died on 2 July 2011.
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