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{{Short description|Irish politician (1933–1997)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image =
| caption =
| office = [[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]
| term_start = 8 October 1981
| term_end = 13 May 1982
| constituency = [[Cultural and Educational Panel]]
| nationality = [[Irish people|Irish]]
| birth_name = Patricia Broughal
| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|3|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kill, County Kildare|Kill]], [[County Kildare]], Ireland
| death_date = {{death date and age|1997|12|19|1933|3|17|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Dublin]], Ireland
| party = [[Fine Gael]]
| education =
| alma_mater =
| spouse = Tony Lawlor
| children = 4, including [[Anthony Lawlor|Anthony]]
}}
'''Patricia Lawlor''' ({{nee|Broughal}}; 17 March 1933 – 19 December 1997) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] politician, nurse and businesswoman.

==Politics==
She was elected as [[Fine Gael]] member to [[Kildare County Council]] at the [[1974 Irish local elections|1974 local elections]] for the Naas electoral area; and re-elected at the [[1979 Irish local elections|1979 local elections]].<ref name=irelandelection>{{cite web|url=https://irelandelection.com/candidate.php?candid=3492|title=Patsy Lawlor|work=IrelandElection.com|access-date=4 October 2023}}</ref> From the [[1985 Irish local elections|1985 local elections]] onwards, she was re-elected as an [[Independent politician (Ireland)|independent]] member.<ref name=irelandelection/> In 1979, she became the first woman to chair [[Kildare County Council]] and Kildare VEC.<ref name=EoS/> A member of the General Council of County Councils from 1979, she was its chairperson from 1981 to 1982.<ref name=dib/>

She was an unsuccessful Fine Gael candidate at the [[1981 Irish general election|1981 general election]] and [[February 1982 Irish general election|February 1982]] general elections for the [[Kildare (Dáil constituency)|Kildare]] constituency.<ref name=dib>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/lawlor-patricia-patsy-a4721|title=Lawlor, Patricia ('Patsy')|work=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|last=Long|first=Patrick|access-date=4 October 2023}}</ref> She was elected to [[Seanad Éireann]] on the [[Cultural and Educational Panel]] in 1981 as a [[Fine Gael]] member.<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Patsy-Lawlor.S.1981-08-10/|title=Patsy Lawlor|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=21 February 2009}}</ref> She lost her seat at the 1983 Seanad election.

At the [[1991 Irish local elections|1991 local elections]], she was elected as an [[Independent politician (Ireland)|independent]] member to [[Kildare County Council]] for the [[Naas]] electoral area.<ref name=elecs_irl>{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=4040|title=Patsy Lawlor|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=21 February 2009}}</ref> She was an unsuccessful independent candidate at the [[1992 Irish general election|1992 general election]] for the Kildare constituency.<ref name=elecs_irl/>

==Personal life==
She was educated locally and at St Mary's secondary school in [[Naas]], she trained as a nurse. She was deeply involved in the social and economic life of [[County Kildare]], where she lived and worked for most of her life, once describing herself as "born, bred, and buttered" in [[Kill, County Kildare|Kill]]. She married Tony Lawlor, a farmer and member of a catering family in Naas; they had four children.<ref name=dib/>

She was a member of the [[Irish Countrywomen's Association]] (ICA) for many years. She was a founder member of the Kill guild of the ICA in 1961, was national president from 1976 to 1979.<ref name=dib/><ref name=EoS>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1998-02-04/3/|title=Death of Former Oireachtas Members: Expressions of Sympathy|work=Oireachtas Parliamentary Debates|date=4 February 1998}}</ref>

In 1986 she reopened her family's pub, the Old House in Kill, and managed it with her son. She died from cancer at St Vincent's Nursing Home, Dublin, on 19 December 1997, aged 64.<ref name=dib/>

Her son [[Anthony Lawlor]] was elected as a [[Fine Gael]] [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for the [[Kildare North (Dáil constituency)|Kildare North]] constituency at the [[2011 Irish general election|2011 general election]].<ref name=elecs_irl_anthony_lawlor>{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=4672|title=Anthony Lawlor|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=8 October 2011}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Families in the Oireachtas]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Members of the 15th Seanad}}

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[[Category:Fine Gael senators]]
[[Category:Independent politicians in Ireland]]
[[Category:Members of the 15th Seanad]]
[[Category:20th-century women members of Seanad Éireann]]
[[Category:Politicians from County Kildare]]
[[Category:Cultural and Educational Panel senators]]
[[Category:Independent candidates in Dáil elections]]
[[Category:Fine Gael candidates in Dáil elections]]

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