Bridget Rice

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

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Bridget Rice

| 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

| nationality = 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 to Walter Heneghan and Bridget McGreal.{{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}} Her brother John Heneghan was a Columban priest. A postmistress, she married Eamon Rice on 1 September 1914, and they had four children.{{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}}

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.{{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}} She was re-elected at each successive election until she retired from politics at the 1954 general election.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1974|title=Bridget Rice|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=28 April 2009}}