Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | October 1961 |
Term End: | June 1977 |
Constituency: | Dublin North-Central |
Term Start2: | May 1954 |
Term End2: | October 1961 |
Constituency2: | Dublin South-Central |
Nationality: | Irish |
Party: | Fianna Fáil |
Birth Name: | Celia Quinn |
Birth Date: | 6 May 1908 |
Birth Place: | Duras House, Kinvara, County Galway, Ireland |
Death Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Spouse: | James B. Lynch |
Children: | 7 |
Celia Lynch (; 6 May 1908 – 16 June 1989) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, assistant Government Whip, and Teachta Dála (TD) for 23 years.[1] She also served as a Dublin City Councillor for many years.
Her birthplace was Duras House, Kinvara, County Galway. Her husband James B. Lynch was a TD and Senator from 1932 until his death in 1954. A schoolteacher before marriage, Lynch was elected to Dáil Éireann on her first attempt, as a Fianna Fáil candidate for the Dublin South-Central constituency at the 1954 general election, taking her seat in the 15th Dáil.[2] She was re-elected at the next 1957 general election. At the 1961 general election, she was elected for Dublin North-Central, where she was returned again at three further general elections before retiring from politics at the 1977 general election.
She lived at 156 Botanic Road, Glasnevin.