Kathleen O'Callaghan
Kathleen O'Callaghan was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and academic. She was born at the Old Forge, Lissandra, Crossmahon, Co.Cork, Ireland in 1885. Educated at the Royal University of Ireland and Cambridge, before entering politics she was a member of Cumann na mBan. In 1905 she married Michael O'Callaghan, who later became Mayor of Limerick and an IRA officer. He was killed in front of her by British forces in their home in 1921.
She was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála at the 1921 elections for the Limerick City–Limerick East constituency. She voted against the Anglo-Irish Treaty and sided with Éamon de Valera. She was re-elected at the 1922 general election, this time as an Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD. In accordance with Sinn Féin abstentionist policy of the time, she did not take her seat in the 3rd Dáil. She lost her seat at the 1923 general election.
