{{Short description|Irish politician (1885–1967)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | office = Teachta Dála | term_start = June 1938 | term_end = May 1954 | constituency = Monaghan | birth_name = Bridget Mary Heneghan | birth_date = {{birth date|1885|5|7|df=y}} | birth_place = Louisburgh, County Mayo, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1967|12|9|1885|5|7|df=y}} | death_place = County Monaghan, Ireland | party = Fianna Fáil | spouse = {{marriage|Eamon Rice|1914}} | children = 4 | education = Presentation Convent, Tuam | relatives = John Heneghan (brother) |}} '''Bridget Mary Rice''' ({{nee|Heneghan}}; 7 May 1885 – 9 December 1967) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
She was born on 7 May 1885 in Louisburgh, County Mayo to Walter Heneghan and Bridget McGreal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1885/02644/1974953.pdf|title=Births registered in the District of Louisburgh No.1, 1885|work=IrishGenealogy.ie|access-date=4 September 2022}}</ref> Her brother John Heneghan was a Columban priest. A postmistress, she married Eamon Rice on 1 September 1914, and they had four children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1914/09865/5583126.pdf|title=Dublin North Marriages, 1914 – No. 9|work=IrishGenealogy.ie|access-date=4 September 2022}}</ref>
Her husband Eamon Rice was a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Monaghan constituency from 1932 until his death in 1937. No by-election was held to fill his seat, but Bridget Rice was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD at the 1938 general election for the same constituency.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Briget-Mary-Rice.D.1938-06-30/|title=Bridget Rice|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=28 April 2009}}</ref> She was re-elected at each successive election until she retired from politics at the 1954 general election.<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1974|title=Bridget Rice|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=28 April 2009}}</ref>
==See also== *Families in the Oireachtas
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/Irish%20bios/TDs_2.htm#rice Bridget Rice biography – Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316014707/http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/Irish%20bios/TDs_2.htm#rice |date=16 March 2016 }}
{{Monaghan (Dáil constituency)/TDs}}
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