Kathleen O'Connor (politician)

Kathleen O'Connor
Teachta Dála
In office
February 1956 – March 1957
ConstituencyKerry North
Personal details
Born(1934-07-30)30 July 1934
Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
Died13 December 2017(2017-12-13) (aged 83)
Cork, Ireland
Political partyClann na Poblachta
Parent
Alma materCarysfort College

Kathleen O'Connor (30 July 1934 – 13 December 2017) was an Irish Clann na Poblachta politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry North constituency from 1956 to 1957.[1][2]

In 1954, her father Johnny Connor had been elected to the Dáil on his third attempt as a candidate for Clann na Poblachta. During her father's stint as a TD, she had also been in Dublin training to become a National School teacher, at Carysfort College and she taught at Meen National School, Knocknagoshel. During her spare time she would offer work at her father's office as his de facto secretary and thus was familiar with the ins and outs of his job. Tragedy struck in December 1955, when Johnny Connor was killed in a traffic accident as he was returning to his home in County Kerry.

Following the funeral, Seán MacBride, leader of Clann na Poblachta, asked O'Connor's mother, Margaret, to stand in the forthcoming by-election for her husband's seat. When she refused, MacBride turned to O'Connor and pleaded with her to stand, saying that she was Clann na Poblachta's only hope for survival, as the party's fortunes had greatly soured after the first Inter-Party Government of 1951. Also, the loss of her father's seat to a Fianna Fáil candidate could have caused the collapse of the Government of the 15th Dáil, which held only a small majority of seats.[3]

The by-election for his Dáil seat was held on 29 February 1956. All of the parties that were members of the government (Fine Gael, Labour, and Clann na Talmhan) agreed not to run candidates as a means to bolster O'Connor, and on top of this the leaders of all three parties (John A. Costello, William Norton, Joseph Blowick) visited the constituency during the campaign. In response, Fianna Fáil also brought in party members to campaign and the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. It all ended with a victory for O'Connor, then only 21-years-old. She became the youngest TD ever at that time and was in fact so young she was still not registered to vote.[2][3][4]

She did not stand at the 1957 general election, and retired from politics. She was 21 years, 7 months old when elected, making her the fourth youngest ever person elected to the Dáil and the youngest ever female TD. She was the first woman to succeed her father at a by-election to the Dáil and the first woman elected to the Dáil in the Kerry North constituency.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kathleen O'Connor". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  2. ^ a b Evans, Tadhg (23 December 2017). "Former TD Kathleen mourned". The Kerryman. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  3. ^ a b O'Shea, Owen; Revington, Gordon (1 October 2018). A Century of Politics in the Kingdom: A County Kerry Compendium. Merrion Press. ISBN 978-1785372018.
  4. ^ "Kathleen O'Connor". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
Honorary titles
Preceded by Baby of the Dáil
1956–1957 		Succeeded by

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