{{Short description|Irish politician (1908–1989)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Celia_Lynch_circa_1930.jpg | alt = Lynch circa 1930 | caption = Lynch, {{circa}} 1930 | 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 | party = Fianna Fáil | birth_name = Celia Quinn | birth_date = {{birth date|1908|5|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Duras House, Kinvara, County Galway, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1989|6|15|1908|5|6|df=y}} | death_place = Dublin, Ireland | spouse = James B. Lynch | children = 7 | alma_mater = {{ubl|University College Galway|University College Dublin}} |}} '''Celia Lynch''' ({{nee|Quinn}}; 6 May 1908 – 16 June 1989) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, assistant Government Whip, and Teachta Dála (TD) for 23 years.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Celia-Lynch.D.1954-06-02/|title=Celia Lynch|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=1 September 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2490|title=Celia Lynch|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=1 September 2012}}</ref> 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<ref name=elecs_irl /> before retiring from politics at the 1977 general election.
She lived at 156 Botanic Road, Glasnevin.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
==See also== *Families in the Oireachtas
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Dublin South-Central (Dáil constituency)/TDs}} {{Dublin North-Central (Dáil constituency)/TDs}}
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