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{{Short description|Irish Fianna Fáil politician (1885–1967)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Bridget Rice

| image =

| office = [[Teachta Dála]]

| term_start = [[1938 Irish general election|June 1938]]

| term_end = [[1954 Irish general election|May 1954]]

| constituency = [[Monaghan (Dáil 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

| nationality = [[Irish people|Irish]]

| 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|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 (Dáil constituency)|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 Irish general election|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 Irish general election|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>

*[[Families in the Oireachtas]]

==References==

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==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 }}

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[[Category:Fianna Fáil TDs]]

[[Category:20th-century women Teachtaí Dála]]

[[Category:Politicians from County Monaghan]]

[[Category:Spouses of Irish politicians]]