1. Bridget Mary Redmond was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael politician, as well as a member of Eoin O'Duffy's radical Blueshirts paramilitary.
10 Facts About Bridget Redmond
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Thrust into politics by the sudden death of her husband in 1932, Redmond would go on to have a twenty-year career in Irish politics during a period in which it was extremely rare for women to hold public office.
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Bridget Redmond Mary Mallick was born to John Mallick, landowner, hotelier, and racehorse owner, and Bridget Redmond Mallick, both of the Curragh in County Kildare.
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The party turned to Bridget Redmond and asked her to stand in the 1933 general election.
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In 1933 Bridget Redmond publicly expressed the view that a thirty-two-county republic was impossible, and accused the Government of driving the two sections of Ireland further apart.
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Bridget Redmond declared that she would never stand for a twenty-six county republic as there were as many men in the North who were just as good nationalists as those in the south and they should not be ignored.
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Bridget Redmond chastised Eamon de Valera for his tolerance of the actions of the IRA.
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Bridget Redmond died on 3 May 1952 at her mother's residence in Athgarvan, near Newbridge, County Kildare.
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Bridget Redmond was 47 at the time and had been ill for a number of weeks.
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Bridget Redmond's death brought an end to sixty-one years of parliamentary representation in Waterford by the Redmond family.