1. Eileen Costello was an English-born Irish politician, writer, teacher and folklorist.
10 Facts About Eileen Costello
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Eileen Costello was born Edith Drury on 27 June 1870 in St Pancras workhouse in London.
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Eileen Costello was a member of the various Irish organisations in London and became a member of the Gaelic League when it formed.
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Eileen Costello began collecting Irish language songs in London.
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Eileen Costello converted to Roman Catholicism and, in 1903, she married Thomas Bodkin Costello, a medical doctor, historian, and fellow Gaelic Leaguer.
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Eileen Costello intended her volume primarily 'for popular use in the schools and Gaelic League classes of Connacht'.
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Eileen Costello was elected to the Irish Free State Seanad Eireann as an independent member in December 1922.
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Eileen Costello was one of four women elected or appointed to the first Seanad in 1922.
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Eileen Costello was re-elected until she lost her seat in the 1934 Seanad election.
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In 1919, Eileen Costello published a compilation of traditional folk-songs from County Galway and County Mayo, titled Amhrain Muighe Seola: Traditional folk-songs from Galway and Mayo.