Frank Sherwin (6 October 1905 – 7 November 1981) was an Irish independent politician who sat for eight years as Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin North-Central, from 1957 to 1965.
[4] He was held for twenty months at several detention centres, including Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, and Tintown camp, Curragh, County Kildare.
He was transferred to the criminal area of Mountjoy Prison, he was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment for allegedly stealing two typewriters.
[6] The constituency was expanded to a four-seater for the 1961 general election, and Sherwin retained his Dáil seat comfortably, winning over 21% of the first-preference vote.
In 1958, when the Dáil was debating allowing women to join the Garda Síochána, he suggested that "while recruits should not be actually horse faced, they should not be too good looking.
[7] He remained a republican sympathiser throughout his life and wrote in his memoirs in the 1970s that "The Provisional IRA can not be expected to disappear as if they had never fought and suffered".