Pearse, Margaret (1857–1932)

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Pearse, Margaret (1857–1932)

Irish politician. Born Margaret Brady, 1857, in Ireland; died 1932; dau. of Patrick Brady (coal factor); m. James Pearse (stone carver and sculptor), c. 1876; children: Margaret Mary Pearse (1878–1968, TD and senator), Mary Brigid Pearse, William Pearse, and Patrick Pearse (1879–1916, writer and revolutionary who was executed along with brother William after 1916 Rising).

Served as matron and housekeeper at St. Enda's School; was a committee member, Irish Volunteers' Dependants' Fund (1916), and honorary member of Cumann na mBan (1917–18); elected to 2nd Dáil as a Sinn Féin deputy for Dublin Co. (1921–22); was anti-Treaty.

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