Margaret Gaj (née Dunlop, 28 January 1919 – 26 June 2011) was a Dublin restaurant owner and political activist.
He was working as an electrician with the RAF, having previously served in the French Air Force after escaping from Poland until France too fell to Nazi Germany.
[2] Although popular, a cafe serving Polish cuisine was not profitable enough to survive in 1950s rural Wicklow, and the Gajs thereafter relocated to the more cosmopolitan Dublin.
[1][3][2] In the 1960s Margaret became involved in the Dublin Housing Action Committee along with other progressive and left-wing activists.
Upon the closure of "Gaj's", she hung a notice on the door thanking her customers but noting "It's not easy to be a socialist in a capitalist society".