Celia Lynch

{{Short description|Irish Fianna Fáil politician (1908–1989)}}

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{{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

| nationality = Irish

| 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}}

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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.{{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}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2490|title=Celia Lynch|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=1 September 2012}} 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}