Sheelagh Murnaghan

Sheelagh Mary Murnaghan, OBE (26 May 1924 – 14 September 1993) was an Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland at Stormont from 1962 to 1969.

[1][2] While studying in Queen's University, Murnaghan also captained the hockey team from 1955 to 1956[3][4] and was the president of the Literary and Scientific Debating Society; also known as The Literific.

[4][2] After graduating from college, Murnaghan became "[one] of only nine women ever elected to the fifty-two-seat Stormont House of Commons during its fifty-year existence".

[3] She became a member of the Ulster Liberal Association in 1959[4][1] and finished her political career in November 1968 when the seat for Queen's University Belfast was abolished.

[5][6] While an MP, Murnaghan campaigned to abolish the death penalty and for a bill of human rights.