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Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll

Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll 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. ==Politics==
Politics
Collins-O'Driscoll was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal TD for the eight-member Dublin North constituency at the 1923 general election, 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==
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. ==References==
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