Kathleen O'Callaghan (née Murphy; October 1885 – 16 March 1961) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and academic. She was born at the Old Forge, Lissandra, Crossmahon, Co.Cork, Ireland in 1885. Educated at the Royal University of Ireland and Cambridge, before entering politics she was a member of Cumann na mBan. In 1905 she married Michael O'Callaghan, who later became Mayor of Limerick and an IRA officer. He was killed in front of her by British forces in their home in 1921.
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16 March 1961 (aged 72)
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