Máire Mullarney
Irish activist
Máire Mullarney (1 September 1921 – 18 August 2008 [1] ) was an Irish environmentalist, educationalist and Esperanto advocate. She was one of the founding members of the Irish Green Party in 1981 (then known as the Ecology Party of Ireland). [2] She stood for the party in three Dáil elections in the 1980s and was elected to South Dublin County Council in 1991, a position she kept until 1999. [ citation needed ]
Her political influences included Hilaire Belloc , GK Chesterton and Ernst Schumacher , author of the influential Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered , which argued for environmentalism from an economist's perspective. [3]
Maire Mullarney also published a book called "Anything school can do you can do better" it was about her raising her children as well as home educating. One of her daughters was Janet Mullarney , artist and sculptor. Her son is Killian Mullarney author and illustrator of Collins Guide to the Birds of Europe. [4]
References
- ↑ "Gormley pays tribute to late Máire Mullarney" . The Irish Times . Archived from the original on 24 March 2012 . Retrieved 20 February 2020 .
- ↑ Mullally, Una (9 June 2019). "The little known story of the origins of the Green Party" . The Irish Times . Archived from the original on 4 September 2019 . Retrieved 27 March 2020 .
- ↑ "Green Party member and advocate of home schooling" . Irish Times . 30 August 2008 . Retrieved 17 October 2021 .
- ↑ Svensson, Lars. (1999). Collins bird guide . Zetterström, Dan., Mullarney, Killian., Grant, P. J. (Peter James), 1943-. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-219728-6 . OCLC 40754502 . Archived from the original on 15 June 2020 . Retrieved 2 August 2020 .
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