Easter widow and Waterford's 1st female TD, Caitlín Brugha died #OTD in 1959. She was one of 5 women elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 but like other Sinn Féin TDs, she didn't take her seat. She was re-elected in June 1927, campaigning on welfare of republican prisoners, but she didn’t stand in a second election that year.

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