Margaret Pearse defeated at the 1922 general election. She supported those who opposed the Treaty during the Irish Civil War and continued to be a member of Sinn Féin until 1926. In 1926 she left the party conference with Éamon de Valera and became a founder member of Fianna Fáil. She never stood for election again. Her daughter Margaret Mary Pearse also joined Fianna Fáil, and served as a TD from 1933 to 1937 and later served in Seanad Éireann as a Senator from 1938 until her death in 1968. At the launch of "The Irish Press" newspaper Margaret was asked to
Sylvia Fein but you'd never get a job when you got out of college, so you should enter the home ec[onomics] school and at least then you could become a teacher." The following year however, Fein changed majors and began to study painting. While completing her program, she was introduced to John Wilde, Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe, all of whom would later be referred to as the “surrealists of the Midwest.” On May 30, 1942, Fein and Scheuber were married, shortly before Scheuber joined the United States military and left to fight in World War II. In