Alice Glenn

Alice Glenn (née Duffy; 17 December 1921 – 16 December 2011) was an Irish Fine Gael politician.

Alice Duffy was born in Dublin in 1921. She was educated locally before attending the Haslem School of Dress Designing. She subsequently worked as a dressmaker.

Glenn first became involved in politics when she contested the constituency of Dublin North-Central at the 1973 general election, as a Fine Gael candidate. She was unsuccessful on that occasion but was elected to Dublin City Council in 1974 for the Drumcondra area. She was also an unsuccessful candidate for Dublin Finglas at the 1977 general election. Glenn was eventually elected to Dáil Éireann on her third attempt, as a Fine Gael TD for the Dublin Central constituency at the 1981 general election. She lost her seat eight months later in the first general election of 1982, but regained it in November 1982.

She was the first woman elected to the Fine Gael national executive, the first woman member (in 270 years) of the Dublin Port and Docks Board and the first woman Chair of the Eastern Health Board.

Glenn was known for her strong social conservative views. In 1983 she was one of eight Fine Gael TDs to defy the party and vote against the Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition's proposed wording to the Pro-Life constitutional amendment on abortion.

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