Eileen Desmond, née Harrington (December 29, 1932 – January 7, 2005) was a senior Irish Labour Party politician. Events 1170 - Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. The Labour Party (Páirtí an Lucht Oibre is a Democratic socialist and Social democratic Political party in the Republic of Ireland. She served in the Dáil and the Seanad and the European Parliament, and was Minister for Health & Social Welfare from 1981 to 1982. ga '''Dáil Éireann''' ( English House of Representatives of Ireland) is the principal chamber of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament Seanad Éireann (ɕan̪ˠad̪ˠ erʲan̪ˠ English Senate of Ireland) also known unofficially as the Senate, is the Upper house of the Oireachtas The European Parliament ( Europarl or EP) is the only directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU The Minister for Health and Children (Aire Sláinte agus Leanaí is the senior minister at the Department of Health and Children in the Government of Ireland
Eileen Desmond was born in Kinsale, County Cork, and educated locally at the Convent of Mercy in Kinsale, where she was one of only two girls in her class to sit the Leaving Certificate examination. Kinsale (Cionn tSáile is a town in County Cork, Ireland. Located some 25 km south of Cork City on the coast near the Old Head of Kinsale County Cork (Contae Chorcaí is the most southerly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. The Leaving Certificate ( Ardteistiméireacht) commonly referred to as the Leaving Cert (Irish Ardteist) is the final course in the Irish Before entering politics she worked as a civil servant with the Department of Posts & Telegraphs. The Minister for Posts and Telegraphs ( Irish: Aire Puist agus Telegrafa; sometimes called the P⁊T) was a senior post in the government of the Irish
Desmond was first elected to Dáil Éireann in a by-election on 10 March 1965, caused by the death of her husband, Dan Desmond, who had been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 1948. ga '''Dáil Éireann''' ( English House of Representatives of Ireland) is the principal chamber of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. (Daniel "Dan" Desmond (3 October 1913 &ndash 9 December 1964 was an Irish Labour Party politician and for TD for seventeen years A Teachta Dála (ˈtʲaxtə ˈdɑːlə is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Oireachtas (Parliament of the Republic of Ireland. Her by-election victory caused Taoiseach Seán Lemass to dissolve the 17th Dáil and call a general election. The Taoiseach (ˈtiːʃəx in English t̪ˠiːʃʲəx (plural Taoisigh ( or) in Irish) also referred to as An Taoiseach ( t̪ˠiːʃʲəx is the the Seán Francis Lemass (15 July 1899 &ndash 11 May 1971 was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and third Taoiseach of Ireland from 1959 until 1966 Composition of the 17th Dáil TDs by constituency The list of the 144 TDs elected is given in alphabetical order by constituency She was re-elected for the second time in a year, but lost her seat in the 1969 general election. The Irish general election of 1969 was held on 18 June 1969 just over four years after its predecessor However, Desmond was elected to the 12th Seanad on the Industrial and Commercial Panel, where she served until her re-election to the 20th Dáil in the 1973 general election. The Industrial and Commercial Panel is one of five Vocational Panels which together elect 43 members of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas Composition of the 20th Dáil TDs by constituency The list of the 144 TDs elected is given in alphabetical order by constituency The Irish general election of 1973 was held on 28 February 1973
Desmond was a hard-working politician. She was elected to the European Parliament in 1979 European elections for the Munster constituency. The 1979 European elections were parliamentary Elections held across all then-9 European Community member states. Munster was a European parliament constituency in Ireland between 1979 and 2004 based on the historic province of Munster. However, her time in Europe was short-lived as she returned to domestic politics when she was offered a position as Minister and the chance to impact upon national legislation. At the 1981 general election a Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition came to power and Desmond was appointed Minister for Health & Social Welfare. The Irish general election of 1981 was held on 11 June 1981 three weeks after the dissolution of the Dáil on 21 May Fine Gael – The United Ireland Party, shortened to Fine Gael (ˌfina gail meaning Family of the Irish or Tribe of the Irish, is the second largest The Labour Party (Páirtí an Lucht Oibre is a Democratic socialist and Social democratic Political party in the Republic of Ireland.
Her Cabinet appointment was historic, as she was the first woman to hold a senior Irish portfolio since the foundation of the state in 1922, although Countess Markiewicz had been in Cabinet as Minister for Labour in 1919 and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn had been appointed as Junior Cabinet Minister for the Gaeltacht in 1979. Constance Georgine Markiewicz Countess Markiewicz (née Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 &ndash 15 July 1927 was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil The Minister for Labour was originally the name of a government department in the Government of the Irish Republic, the self-declared state which was established in 1919 by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (Máire Nic Eochagáin Uí Chuinn born 5 September 1950 is a former Irish politician who served as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála The Minister for Community Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Aire Gnóthaí Pobail Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta is the senior minister at the Department of Community Rural and
Desmond retired from full time politics at the 1987 general election, for health reasons. The Irish general election of 1987 was held on 17 February 1987 four weeks after the dissolution of the Dáil on 20 January She died suddenly in 2005. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Political career
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| Preceded by Michael Woods |
Minister for Health 1981–1982 |
Succeeded by Michael Woods |
| Minister for Social Welfare 1982–1982 |
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This page incorporates information from the Oireachtas Members Database
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