constituency birth_place nationality party office article_title name
shannon , county clare derry , northern ireland irish irish republican socialist party , independent councillor brigid makowski
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brigid makowski

brigid makowski -lrb- née sheils -rrb- is a former member of shannon town commission and clare county council .
she was elected initially representing the irish republican socialist party of which she was a founding member .
she was born in the bogside area of derry , and was involved in the 1968 civil rights march in the city at the beginning of the troubles .
she married leo makowski a polish-american whom she met in philadelphia .
she joined the irish american grouping `` clann na gael '' in philadelphia , and proposed that a northern ireland civil rights association banner be included in the 1969 saint patrick 's day parade .
originally she was a member of sinn féin and sided with the official wing during the 1970 split .
she disagreed however with the 1972 ceasefire and was a supporter of seamus costello .
she was called to testify at the official irish republican army court-martial of costello in mornington .
she remarked after costello had been dismissed that `` jesus could have testified on costello 's behalf and it would n't have changed the verdict . ''
after costello 's expulsion from official sinn féin and the official ira , she became a founding member of the irish republican socialist party .
she was elected in 1981 as a councillor to the shannon town commission .
she was re-elected as an independent after leaving the irsp .
she was later elected to clare county council in 1991 .
makowski campaigned against the building of the visitor centre in mullaghmore , in the burren .
she later became a county councillor and for a while was considered a possible future td for clare .
she retired from political life in 1999 .
